Osteoarthritis, knee or hip, may join low back pain to
make some of us uncomfortable. Lumbar
spinal stenosis is a specific spinal condition that is expanding
its influence as the population ages. Its symptoms often appear with other osteoarthritic conditions and stenosis symptoms.
Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC offers pain relieving La Grande
chiropractic care for spine pain relief for spinal stenosis and other spine
pain conditions.
THE COMBINATION: Back Pain and Osteoarthritis
Recent research reported that 15% of
knee and 23% of knee osteoarthritic patients also experienced lumbar
spinal stenosis symptoms. They both experienced improvements in knee
or hip related pain, function and quality of life when they went
through a patient education and exercise program. So what works for these patients? Research study after
research study states that exercise therapy likely enhances
patient outcomes for patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis while no one kind
is said to be better than the others. (1,2,3,4) Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC adds
spinal manipulation to boost the La Grande chiropractic care
and clinical outcomes.
TREATMENT FOR BACK PAIN AND OSTEOARTHRITIS
Not startling to any of our
current La Grande chiropractic patients, hands-on spinal manipulation
is central to our treatment plan. A study of conservative
treatment of low back pain as a result of lumbar spinal
stenosis stated that incorporating flexion
distraction spinal manipulation generated a more
significant reduction in pain and disability scores. (5) Another
study using a Cox® flexion distraction changed
treatment of knee pain and osteoarthritis recorded a mean decrease
in VAS (visual analog scale 0-10)-patient reported pain scores from 7.7 to 1.8 in
5.3 treatments in 3 weeks. This study documented clinical
improvement for patients with knee pain. (6) Pain relief is our goal here at Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
and is most likely yours as well!
CONTACT Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson
as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of
Spinal Pain Management and his adaptation of its principles
to relieve knee osteoarthritis.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic
appointment now. Bring your osteoarthritis, spinal stenosis,
and back pain to Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. We are prepared
to help!