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Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC Shares Your 2024 Goal of Relief of Back Pain

December 26, 2023

A new year. A new goal. We all aim for something new in a new year. For La Grande back pain patients, a decrease in back pain is a understandable goal with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC by your side. Back pain sufferers may feel alone, but they aren’t, and research continues to produce and share hopeful reports of what does work so that both the back pain sufferer and the chiropractor - and other consulting healthcare providers – deliver the optimal attention for the optimal outcome: less back pain. Start 2024 off right with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC’s help for back pain relief! We have lots of effective chiropractic services

BACK PAIN RELIEF RECOMMENDATIONS

Suggestions and recommendations run the gamut. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC hears about them all the time. Everyone from friends, family members, researchers, doctors, others, have opinions and stories. In light of the variability of back pain care recommendations, researchers propose that the standardization of back pain care - exercise, spinal manipulation and opioid prescriptions – that may benefit back pain sufferers best. (1) We concur. We read the research and combine it with our clinical experience to develop an individualized treatment plan for our back pain patients. With the expected growth of low back pain through 2050 – from 619 million people globally to more than 800 million (2) – effective, research-documented, non-drug, non-surgical choices for back pain are welcome, particularly ones that are tried and verified as being beneficial.  A new paper was just published regarding the care for a specific type of back pain - continued back pain after back surgery known as failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) - that often results in continued or increased opioid pain medication use.  The study found that FBSS patients treated with Cox® Flexion Distraction Decompression Manipulation experienced reduction or discontinuation of opioid use during an initial 3-month course of treatment. (3) That is a positive outcome of a treatment approach to include in the standardized back pain treatment recommendations!

SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS

So what can our La Grande chiropractic patients do to control their back pain and its effect on their lives? Sleep. Be active. Undergo spinal manipulation. Feedback from 2333 back pain sufferers listed that more sleep, less sedentariness, and more moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity was beneficial. The authors shared an example of how swapping 30 minutes of sedentary behavior for 30 minutes of sleep reduced low back pain frequency odds by 5% and pain intensity by 2%. Sleep is important! (4) So too is a visit to the La Grande chiropractor for spinal manipulation as it is listed in the recommendations by the American College of Physicians and The American Pain Society as having good evidence of effectiveness for low back pain along with exercise, CBT, and rehabilitation. (5) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is experienced in delivering gentle, safe spinal manipulation via Cox® Technic protocols, designing a simple exercise plan, and recommending therapy and/or more advance rehab as necessary or desired. Trust us to help! Our La Grande back pain patients are in good hands.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox, developer of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the effectiveness of Cox® Technic for back pain relief.

Make your La Grande chiropractic appointment soon. Back pain sufferers wanting 2024 to be better are invited to our clinic. We’ll follow the research recommendations, mix in our clinical experience, and team up with you for a less painful 2024!

La Grande Back Pain treatment goal for 2024