Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC Shares Tips on How to Reduce Negative Effects of Back Pain on Your Life
Quality of life. That is the central factor in aging well and taking pleasure in life to its fullest. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is honored to work with La Grande chiropractic patients to boost their odds of aging well and experiencing the best quality of life possible. La Grande back pain patients value knowing what factors might negatively impact their quality of life and their options to lessen the influence of those factors.
FACTORS INFLUENCING BACK PAIN AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Musculoskeletal diseases like osteoporosis, knee arthritis, disc degeneration and related back pain negatively impact quality of life. These conditions often arise in mid-life and older life, rendering life not very pleasant. Researchers reported on factors that seem to decrease the odds of acquiring these conditions. What are they? Lower body mass index (BMI). Fine spinal alignment. Greater back muscle strength. No issue with locomotion syndrome – trouble with moving from one position to another, one place to another. Stable body balance. With all of these good factors in place, middle aged and older folks can expect a better quality of life. (1) Further, since lumbar spine extensor muscles are known to be important factors in motor control functions like balance, attempts to strengthen these specifically are important to try to turn around such problems as balance control. (2) Exercise is often a part of the chiropractic treatment plan for La Grande back pain patients. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC knows that back pain sufferers have many healthcare forms of care from which to choose and shares what the researchers say about the options.
SURGICAL OUTCOMES
To get the most out of an option, the circumstances must be optimal. Back surgery may not always be the choice option for every La Grande back pain patient. Undergoing back surgery doesn’t always produce fully the desired outcome, particularly for patients with back pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis. The pain and disability that accompany it stayed around for 29% to 42% of patients who reportedly experienced minimal to no benefit from back surgery. (3) Today’s guidelines of care for back pain propose non-surgical options like spinal manipulation first. Chiropractic care incorporates spinal manipulation. Chiropractic care at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is all about Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation to get the desired pain reduction outcome.
La Grande CHIROPRACTIC CARE OUTCOMES
Chiropractic researchers are currently studying the specific effects of chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation on balance, strength and endurance better outcomes in patients with low back pain, especially active military personnel as 20% of all disability discharges were associated with back pain. (4) Low back pain is a frequent cause of disability in the military. Seeing as how military personnel are people like us all, this study’s findings will be interesting! Another study that added chiropractic - spinal manipulative therapy to the low back and adjacent regions along with other therapeutic approaches such as rehabilitative exercise, cryotherapy, superficial heat, and other manual therapies - to usual medical care - self-care, medications, physical therapy, and pain clinic referral – improved short-term outcomes in low back pain intensity and disability in active duty military. (5) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC gathers these helpful studies to share with our La Grande back pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his care of a back pain patient who found relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation, improved his quality of life notwithstanding his lumbar spinal stenosis condition.
Schedule your next La Grande chiropractic visit. Together, you and Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC will set a course to make sure your quality of life in middle and older age is as pleasant as possible without the negative influence of back pain and other painful musculoskeletal diseases.
