The Path of La Grande Back Pain Contained with Chiropractic Care
You experience a bout of back pain – first, second, tenth. Are you curious about what that means going forward? Of course! The trajectory – researchers’ name for the course of back pain – of the La Grande back pain experience is unique to each, but there are factors that may help predict that course. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC offers a few ideas on the influence of lifestyle and chiropractic care.
WHAT TO DO – Chiropractic
A new article’s findings make seeking chiropractic care logical to impact the course of back pain. Patients undergoing chiropractic care for their chronic (over 3 months) and acute (under a month) low back pain who reported “much better” or “better” at one week of care were 4 to 5 times more likely to report improvement at 1 and 3 months of care. More specifically, acute back pain patients who reported having more severe pain and disability at the start of care recovered quicker. Most patients with lumbar radicular leg pain improved. Both chronic and acute back pain patients reported good outcomes. (1) Another study of the interdisciplinary care (spine surgeons/chiropractors in a university hospital) of chronic back pain patients reported that almost half of the chronic low back pain patients cared with chiropractic conservative care reported clinically relevant improvement. (2) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC sees even greater outcomes with our particular form of chiropractic care, Cox® Technic!
WHAT TO DO – More Chiropractic
A question arises: why stop chiropractic care with pain relief? Researchers documented that low back pain patients who experienced chiropractic maintenance care – chiropractic treatments on a regular basis unrelated to whether they had symptoms – experienced fewer days of low back pain that limited their activities of daily living compared with getting treatment only when a new low back pain episode arose. (3) More La Grande chiropractic care on a regular basis seems positive.
WHAT TO DO – More Activity
More is not always better, but some types of more are better, like chiropractic and activity. A low back pain patient with a lifetime history of back pain may want to try engaging in higher volumes of moderate to vigorous physical activity since it was shown to lower the odds of developing severe low back pain over the following year. (4) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC knows none of us back pain sufferers enjoys hearing that, but it is the finding of one study. More intense exercise was shown beneficial. Know too that a sedentary lifestyle – work and/or pleasure time – moderately increases the risk of low back pain. (5) There is a middle ground! Let’s at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC find that with you, the spot that inhibits back pain and allows you to be as active as you want to be.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the at-times overwhelming number of options for back pain relief including The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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