Healthy News May 2020
Patients often ask how long they must come for chiropractic care at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. Ultimately, their relief dictates this. For some the end of care is figured out together, patient and the La Grande chiropractor. For others, when the pain is gone, they are gone. The patients decide for themselves. And when there’s no pain, it seems natural to quit coming. However, there may be a special consideration: If back pain is bothersome and prevents you from doing what you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular schedule (sometimes referred to as “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not helps. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care decreased the number of days with pain in acute episodes and increased the duration of pain-free days for back pain sufferers who have with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not typically cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It will not simply disappear. The bruise becomes a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is surely welcome, and continued chiropractic care via a La Grande chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain episodes. Some patients request maintenance care after a few episodes of La Grande back pain. Some set up a schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is the La Grande chiropractic care partner for you!
La Grande CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise Benefits Before Back Surgery and for Non-Specific Low Back Pain
A 16-week study of supervised resistance training with varying low, moderate and high intensity exercise throughout a week time frame benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By improving pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as beneficial. (2) Those are encouraging outcomes! Sadly, in the year before back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% had at least one PT visit with exercise, and only 14.6% had a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% received at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care incorporating spinal manipulation and exercise are worthy pre-back surgery efforts. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is here to do this with you!
Listen to this PODCAST with chiropractic back pain specialist, James Cox DC DACBR, developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, and a PODCAST with spine surgeon, David Hanscome, MD, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they present the conservative approach to dealing with La Grande back pain.
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Arrange your next La Grande chiropractic appointment now with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is your spine care and back pain management partner!