May 2019 Healthy News: La Grande Chiropractic Benefits Chronic Pain (Without Opioids) & Athletes
La Grande chronic pain is rampant. La Grande opioid use is widespread. What is an effective option? Chiropractic with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. Why? Opioids were welcomed as a pill solution for chronic pain…costs climbed, risks soared. Options and co-treatment approaches are called for. In a research investigation of 62,000 patients in 6 studies of chiropractic use and opioid prescribing, use of chiropractic care ranged from 11.3% to 51.3%. Patients who visited a chiropractor for their musculoskeletal pain problem were 49% less liable to get a prescription for an opioid than those who went to different healthcare providers. (1) Patients using on-going chiropractic care to cope with their chronic low-back and neck pain told researchers that their pain would be more without such chiropractic care. Further, they are willing to pay for care to keep their mild pain levels. The “willingness to pay” cost ranges from $37.32 to $45.98. (2) La Grande chiropractic patients at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC appreciate their chiropractic care! La Grande chiropractic services benefit chronic pain along with or without opioids.
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Vincent Pankonin on The Back Doctor’s Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how chronic back pain treatment without opioids utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management allowed a patient to “forget” to come see him for a year as his pain was absent!
La Grande athletes – recreational and professional – crave that edge when they do their sport. Spinal manipulation could be just that! Elite Taekwondo athletes felt improved muscle strength and corticospinal excitability to ankle plantar flexor muscles after just one spinal manipulation. The increased force of the maximum voluntary contraction of the plantar flexors lasted for 30 minutes and the corticospinal excitability increase went on for not less than 60 minutes. (3) Virginia Tech football players – offensive and defensive - felt improved performances in 2 football seasons during which they had spinal manipulation treatments before games. (4) A recent report shared that a single pre-exercise SMT elicited a heightened shift toward parasympathetic (the part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for controlling the body's unconscious actions) dominance and marginally diminished performance in recreational healthy athletes. (5) Time to try spinal manipulation for yourself! See if it boosts your edge. Let us talk at your next La Grande chiropractic appointment.
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Schedule your La Grande chiropractic appointment. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is here to help you control your chronic pain without opioids and enable you not to be a part of today’s opioid epidemic and help La Grande athletes increase their edge! Thank you for trusting your spine’s health to Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC!