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May 2019 Healthy News: La Grande Chiropractic Benefits Chronic Pain (Without Opioids) & Athletes

Instead of opioids, La Grande chiropractic is valuable for chronic pain management and relief. 

Chronic Pain: Opioids? Use Chiropractic Instead.

La Grande chronic pain is rampant. La Grande opioid use is epidemic. What is an effective option? Chiropractic with Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. Why? Opioids were acclaimed as a pill solution for chronic pain…costs increased, risks soared. Options and co-treatment approaches are called for. In a research investigation of 62,000 patients in 6 studies of chiropractic utilization and opioid prescribing, usage of chiropractic care ranged from 11.3% to 51.3%. Patients who visited a chiropractor for their musculoskeletal pain problem were 49% less apt to get a prescription for an opioid than those who went to different healthcare providers. (1) Patients using on-going chiropractic care to cope with their chronic low-back and neck pain told researchers that their pain would be more without such chiropractic care. Further, they are willing to pay for care to keep their mild pain levels. The “willingness to pay” cost ranges from $37.32 to $45.98. (2) La Grande chiropractic patients at Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC highly regard their chiropractic care! La Grande chiropractic services benefit chronic pain in addition to or without opioids.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Vincent Pankonin on The Back Doctor’s Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how chronic back pain treatment without opioids using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management permitted a patient to “forget” to come see him for a year as his pain was gone!

Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC offers spinal manipulation to athletes of all types – recreational and professional – to boost their efforts.

La Grande CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Spinal Manipulation Before Sports

La Grande athletes – recreational and professional – desire that edge when they do their sport. Spinal manipulation could be just that! Elite Taekwondo athletes experienced increased muscle strength and corticospinal excitability to ankle plantar flexor muscles after just one spinal manipulation. The improved force of the maximum voluntary contraction of the plantar flexors lasted for 30 minutes and the corticospinal excitability increase lasted for not less than 60 minutes. (3) Virginia Tech football players – offensive and defensive - felt better performances in two football seasons during which they had spinal manipulation treatments before games. (4) A recent report shared that a single pre-exercise SMT brought about a heightened shift toward parasympathetic (the part of the autonomic nervous system in charge of controlling the body's unconscious actions) dominance and slightly lessened performance in recreational healthy athletes. (5) Time to try spinal manipulation for yourself! See if it boosts your edge. Let us chat at your next La Grande chiropractic appointment.

CONTACT Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC

Schedule your La Grande chiropractic appointment. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is ready to help you manage your chronic pain without opioids and enable you not to be a part of today’s opioid epidemic and help La Grande athletes increase their edge! Thank you for trusting your spine’s health to Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC!

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