La Grande Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today
Just a short note on the current COVID-19. The CDC guidelines about coping are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC suggests the same…and also suggests that you see your La Grande chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!
From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html
Now, let us look at exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow La Grande chiropractic patients during times of stress as COVID-19 may provoking, but exercise to stabilize your spine while and following your La Grande back pain episodes.
STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN
Stability and balance go together. Stability alludes to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is connected with less stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often seen in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. Therefore, Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC observes every chiropractic patient meticulously throughout their whole visit door to door. Observation is a helpful tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, La Grande neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers examined this topic of balance and its disruption, too. New studies reported on patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is fond of these tests. Some of our La Grande chiropractic patients will be curious about what we are examining when we ask them to sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and time them! We chiropractors are an inquisitive group! Tests like these tell your La Grande chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. Another analysis of similar studies reported that manual therapy like spinal manipulation offered at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be confident additional studies like these are ongoing, and one specifically studying how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction affects these tests and eventually the balance and stability of back pain patients is underway.
BALANCE AND FALLS
Many trials have already documented that many chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a foremost problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they manytimes also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and worse balance and muscle strength. (1) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC urges our patients to exercise for balance and stability.
EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE
The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a known and most critical stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players get this! Researchers measured their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness decreased. Those players with low back pain exhibited significant change at rest. (2) Australian football players with low back pain were to have the same issue while standing and at rest. (3) Both studies noted that body composition and body fat and mass were linked to the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC has some exercise recommendations for our La Grande back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is ready to share them with you at your La Grande chiropractic visit!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Marc Baker on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. The value of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for back pain and neck pain patients’ recovery is highlighted.
Schedule your next La Grande chiropractic appointment at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC today. Let Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC be part of your plan to maintain and increase your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…as well as in this unusual time of coronavirus.
