La Grande Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Fear of the “damaged spine.” It is a most common feeling to have about any number of things in life. Fear avoidance. It’s common in La Grande back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior also creeps in with it. Back pain specialists like your La Grande chiropractic physician recognize the effects of fear and fear avoidance on La Grande back pain and neck pain patients. Fear limits La Grande back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things out of concern that they may hurt. The spine is pretty sturdy, but when it is damaged its resiliency fades in the mind of its owner. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC helps La Grande back pain sufferers cope with the fear of back pain through information, care, and movement.
The Sense of Fear
Fear itself makes sense. If you suffer pain with something, you seek to avoid that something like shuffling paper in a way that you get a paper cut or bending a certain way that elicits leg pain. If you have back pain when you move, you try not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-producing activity for a La Grande back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers point out though that if a back pain sufferer has pain in the early days of back pain and does not make a huge deal out of it, he or she doesn’t get trapped in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC understands with the La Grande back pain patient who does not desire to move too much due to fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC positively gets La Grande back pain sufferers moving and performing their normal activities of daily life one small motion at a time!
Gentle Care and Motion
Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC incorporates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is all about motion and relieving back pain and the fear that goes along with it. Adding manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier sped up the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and lowered the use of medication to manage the pain. (2) The La Grande chiropractic treatment plan at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC includes gentle, soothing Cox Technic to make larger the spinal canal and lessen pressure on the spinal nerves as well as bring motion back to the spine as the back pain and/or leg pain improves.
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Fear may be a good thing, too. Fear of back surgery may get a back pain sufferer to seek non-surgical care like that offered at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and found relief with Cox Technic. He even returned to exercising and moving which he stopped due to pain!
Schedule a La Grande chiropractic appointment at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC to ease your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!
