La Grande Chiropractic Newsletter from Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC for February 2017
All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together
Doctors working together benefits patients. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is always ready to work with La Grande healthcare colleagues to help a La Grande chiropractic patient! A new study shows that when family medicine residents and chiropractors cooperatively care for older patients with back pain, everyone benefits. Patients liked it. Both types of doctors liked getting to know each other’s treatment approaches. (1) While another study demonstrates that multidisciplinary conferences involving many kinds of providers decrease the use of spinal fusion for low back and improve the matching of surgical type to the proper patient type. (2) It’s all good! Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is ready to help!
Proper Timing for Back or Neck Surgery
Research reports that 88% of cervical radiculopathy patients and 70% of lumbar radiculopathy patients show improvement within 4 weeks of symptom onset. Therefore, optimal timing for surgery for cervical radiculopathy (arm/upper extremity pain) is within 8 weeks of symptoms though 4 weeks may be considered and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Naturally, Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC works toward surgery necessity but knows when to refer appropriate patients for surgical care. There are times when it is. Count on Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.
Healthy Eating!
It’s not just a slogan! Healthy eating improves bone mineral density and decreases the risk of osteoporosis. Those who consume more vegetables and fruits have less osteoposis and higher bone mineral density in middle and older age. If you are one of those La Grande chiropractic patients who don’t like vegetables much, you are in luck! Fruit more so than vegetables seems to be better. (4) Less osteoporosis can potentially mean less back pain later in life, so enjoy some veggies and fruit today!
Vitamin D and Back Pain
Low vitamin D levels for La Grande chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! Increased vitamin D levels via supplementation show lowered pain intensity and better function ability in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC loves that such an easy thing as a nutritional supplement may help our La Grande chiropractic patients so much!
Everything is connected! Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC knows this to be true! Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC just read this study about tinnitus and its potential relationship to cervical spine disorders. That makes sense! They find that when cervical spine disorders are improved, so is the tinnitus. There is a connection between the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the auditory pathway and the cervical spine. (6) If tinnitus along with a cervical spine condition concerns you or a friend, let’s see what Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC can do to help! La Grande chiropractic may help.
Obesity Increases Risk of Osteoporosis
When we think about osteoporosis, we used to think of thin people as being the ones at risk. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC often thought that. But not now! New research reports that obesity is a big risk factor for osteoporosis since fat is used by inflammatory cytokines to negatively control bone metabolism. (7) Now, that’s new news. All of us La Grande folks – thin and overweight – need to be attentive of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Make a La Grande chiropractic appointment today with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. What a great first step toward relief!