Healthy News April 2023 Choosing the Back Pain Care Option for You and Adding Turmeric for Anti-Inflammatory Help
“Supermarkets” are amazing for gathering food but not so much so for getting relief of La Grande back pain, grasping the basis of back pain, nor waking up each day and functioning with hope. A new back pain sufferer may well get lost in this “supermarket” of healthcare options. Researchers described this comparison of back pain care options to goods on shelves in a supermarket as they witnessed this at their meetings where the latest in back pain care approaches were touted next to each other with each approach’s supporters imparting their outcomes (some with solid, accurately presented research evidence, some without). (1) It is no wonder that back pain sufferers – who are not alone with a lifetime likelihood of low back pain for all of us being 85% (2) – are overwhelmed. That’s where our teamwork comes into play. You share your expectations. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC will share the best evidence to create a treatment plan to help you recover. Researchers studied patient preferences and goals for non-surgical treatment of chronic low back pain and discovered that these are vital to patient outcomes. (3) YOUR goals of care are key: Do you want to walk further? Sleep better? Understand your pain more thoroughly? YOUR preferences for care are key: Do you feel spinal manipulation is for you? Or supervised rehab? Or psychotherapy?? Supervised therapy? Talk to a therapist?]33] As your La Grande chiropractor, I want to know them. Those will direct your care and enhance your clinical outcomes. We know that conservative care for 4 to 6 weeks is recommended (in the absence of progressive neurological deficits and/or cauda equina syndrome) before imaging. (4) We also know that spinal manipulation is one of the top conservative advocated treatments. (5) When you are suffering with back pain, let us be your personal shopper, finding you the approach of chiropractic services to help you best!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details both The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management as well as the healthcare path for back pain relief that is often confusing and non-congruent with current suggestions for the non-surgical, conservative care of back pain.
Turmeric (curcuma longa L.) is a plant well-recognized for its anti-inflammatory properties due to its polyphenolic curcuminoids. In a scoping review of published papers, researchers determined that current evidence is great that suggests clinical benefit from supplementing turmeric for its anti-inflammatory benefits, particularly in inflammation-associated diseases like obesity-related metabolic disorders or musculoskeletal disorders (like back and neck pain). (6) Researchers always call for more research to definitively recommend dosages and formulations. In the meantime, Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC and you can chat about how turmeric’s addition to your nutrition plan may benefit your pain relief and healing.
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