Painful Spines Respond to Non-Surgical Care like Chiropractic
Back pain care guidelines endorse non-surgical care approaches like spinal manipulation. So who provides non-surgical care? A recent study just stated that “Chiropractic is one of the largest manual therapy professions in the US and internationally.” (1) So true! Chiropractors like your La Grande chiropractor at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC embrace that responsibility. Your La Grande chiropractor assists La Grande back pain and neck pain patients be alleviated of the pain and enhance their quality of life.
The latest guideline for non-surgical treatment for recent onset back and/or leg pain advocates patient education (incorporating a talk about treatment outcome), exercise (advice to keep active) and manual therapy, not routine imaging, targeted treatment, extraforaminal glucocorticoid injection, paracetamol, NSAIDs and opioids. (2) Chiropractic offers all three!
24% of US adults seek out chiropractic care in their lifetime. 8.4% of US adults received chiropractic care in the past year. (1) Why don’t more patients get chiropractic care? The back pain care guidelines written by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society call for non-surgical approaches like spinal manipulation. (3) Even the physical therapists are upset! “Although therapies delivered by PTs are promoted as a first-line treatment for low back pain, PT referral rates remain low.” Only 10.1% of primary care provider visits for low back pain ended with a physical therapy referral. If a patient were insured by Medicaid or Medicare, that percent was even lower. Where do these low back pain and leg pain patients go? What do they do about their low back pain and leg pain sciatica? The primary care physicians wrote opioid prescriptions more often. (4) Your La Grande chiropractor proposes a non-surgical, non-drug way to pain relief.
But what inspires a visit to a chiropractor like your La Grande chiropractor? Spine pain. 63% for back pain and 30.2% for neck pain. (That sounds correct for Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC, too. Our La Grande chiropractic patients see us as the La Grande back and neck pain specialists!) Further, adults over 30 and those with spine pain were more likely to visit a chiropractor in the past year. 23% of the chiropractic patients also had a prescription for their back pain. 35% of them used over the counter medications for the same issue which they were seeing the chiropractor. 63.8% reported that the combined care for their spinal pain – medical and chiropractic – was helpful. (1) Your La Grande chiropractor is ready to share care! Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is ready to collaborate with your primary care physician as necessary.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic visit today. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC will reach out to your primary care physician. We are all with you and desire the same thing: non-surgical pain relief as called for by the latest back pain care guidelines and improved quality of life for you, our mutual La Grande back pain patient or neck pain patient.
