La Grande Back Pain Relief Includes Self-Management
“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something so I stop hurting.” are just two comments Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC and fellow back pain healthcare practitioners commonly hear. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the least effort required and quickest way possible. This is not always possible though. We all have to look at our pain and make friends with it to some extent. We can see it for what it is. Temporary. Unwelcome. Disruptive. But manageable many times when engaged. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC encourages our La Grande back pain patients and neck pain patients to participate in their back pain relief process. It can make a difference. It may well alter your life for the better. Many La Grande chiropractic patients have lived this.
SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Remarkably up to 25% of back pain patients in a new study were not actively engaged in their spine care treatment plan. Research is ripe with reports emphasizing the importance of patient-engagement with treatment of spine pain. What kept such patients participating? In researcher-ease, environmental context and resources, emotion, memory/attention/decision-making, and behavioural regulation did. Knowing that these things were the interfering culprits that interfered with patients’ participation in their own care, researchers made a special plan to deal with these issues and improve the patients’ understanding and participation via text reminders, exercises, lifestyle changes, webinars, videos, paper educational materials and more. (1) One study discovered that a mix of approaches to reduce disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one particular intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC tries to do whatever it takes to help our La Grande back pain and neck pain patients!
SPINE EXERCISES AND EMS
This may be a unique helpful intervention for certain patients: whole-body electromyostimulation. It dropped nonspecific chronic low back pain equally as well as back-strengthening exercise protocols. When fear of movement and functional limitations because of back pain are a part of the problem, whole body electrical stimulation improved patients’ strength and stabilization in good time, decreasing pain intensity and improving trunk flexors. (3) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC shares such options to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Ever heard the saying “There’s an app for that!”? Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is certain you have! Not alarming in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in the works to help you keep track of self-management tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are currently gathering data on the effectiveness of various interventions at baseline, 6 weeks, 3, 6, and 9 months for nonspecific low back pain. From this research data, researchers will fill the app with tips and exercises that have benefited others with similar issues. Each patient’s app will then be customized for self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based on what others with similar conditions found helpful and relieving. (4) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC looks forward to saying “There's an app for that!" Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC knows that some of our La Grande back pain patients will love this!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jack Stern on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how back pain patients may help themselves to the best back pain relief possible.
Schedule a La Grande chiropractic visit soon to begin care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. Be ready to be involved in your back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You’ll be so happy that the pill or “something” was not offered once you are feeling better regarding back pain relief and mental contentment that you were an active part of the relief process.
