Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC Calms Patients Fear Of Returned Back Pain With Chiropractic Care
KINESIOPHOBIA. Now, there’s a word! It denote fear that moving may cause pain. It is something your La Grande chiropractor works with La Grande back pain patients every day. It’s important to move and not fear movement. Life is motion. Motion is life. Movement is important, and Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is all about getting our chiropractic patients moving and keeping them moving.
FEAR OF MOVING…AND MORE
Chronic back pain doesn’t just affect the back and spine. It alters the back pain sufferer’s emotions and physicality, too. Kinesiophobia is a more extreme fear of pain or re-injury upon movement. No doubt such fear alters the back pain sufferer’s quality of life, disability and pain intensity. But by how much? Researchers report significantly. (1) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC gets it. It’s reasonable to not desire to prompt such back pain if one can escape it. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC encourages slow but sure return to usual life motions and to do it one day at a time.
MOVEMENT IS PART OF THE La Grande CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT HEALING PLAN
Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC reports that research studies revealed improvement in walking capacity with non-surgical care for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. This would certainly be well received by La Grande back pain patients suffering with lumbar spine stenosis, the most common reason for spine surgery in US adults. Manual therapy and individualized exercise programs provided better short-term symptom improvement, physical function and walking capacity than medical care or group exercise. (2)
BALANCE, MUSCLE AND BACK PAIN
Individualized treatment plans are superior to decrease pain and return motion and function. Doctors like your La Grande chiropractor at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC test muscle activation and balance ability with a one-legged balance posture in older patients and those with chronic low back pain because it is known that chronic low back pain patients and older people respond with different muscle responses to various physical tasks than those who do not have chronic low back pain. Chronic low back pain sufferers feel balance issues, too. Their trunk muscle activation during balance tasks is lower. (3) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC can discover much about La Grande back pain patient’s condition with some of the most unassuming tests…and individualize the treatment plan as necessary: Cox® Technic, nutrition and exercise.
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