March 2023 Healthy News from Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC Failed Back Surgery Back Pain Relief with Gentle Spinal Manipulation Take Your Vitamin D!

Name: Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
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FAILED BACK SURGERY BACK PAIN RELIEF

Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that remains or returns after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is demonstrating effectiveness. And Cox® Technic as used at our La Grande chiropractic clinic is getting noticed for its pain-alleviating outcomes! So have you had back surgery? Do you still experience back pain…or has it come back? You’re not alone, especially in wishing the pain would just go away and never return. Some will opt for more medical options like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will try to find non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A recent meta-analysis of published data on the kinds of spinal manipulation applied to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery reported that spinal manipulation practitioners chose to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – over thrust techniques. (1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients handled with Cox® Technic recorded that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment period 81% of the patients attained more than 50% relief of pain. The mean percent of relief was 71.6% when the active treatment time was done and 70% at 2-year-follow-up. The relief continued! (2) The frustration of back pain is understandable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was anticipated to eliminate it is even more frustrating. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC extends Cox® Technic to decrease the pain…and the frustration!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the help his patient felt with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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TIP OF THE MONTH: Another Reason to Be Up on Your Vitamin D! LBP And Disc Degeneration

Higher vitamin D levels were documented to be associated with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP) sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers measured vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 patients. It required more time for those who had low levels of vitamin D to perform these tests: gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women with vitamin D deficiency (especially those with less than 10 ng/mL which marked severe LDD and LBP) are noted to have LBP and LDD. Add in smoking, high body mass index, osteoporosis, and no D supplementation, and the moderate to severe pain was increased. (4) Another report indicated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly associated with vitamin D concentration. (5) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC asks: How’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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