Guidelines. There are guidelines everywhere!
This post discusses some of the newer
guidelines for interprofessional teamwork between chiropractors and other
healthcare providers to enhance the healing of La Grande back
pain and neck pain sufferers. Exercises are a primary part of back
pain prevention alongside management that all providers encourage
and all providers worry aren’t
always executed. Chiropractors like your own
at Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC are health promoters and work to do that in the kindest,
most helpful way! Let us work
together to get you better.
GUIDELINES FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Quality in healthcare delivery is talked
about so much. Providers and
patients want the best quality care possible in
delivering care and receiving care. Interprofessional
collaboration is on the top of the list when researchers
assess systems for the care of back pain like suitable
use of screening and preventive services. (1) Researchers have also put
together 70 quality values for chiropractic
delivery that are standardized and evidence-based that take
into account patient worries and higher
clinical outcomes. (2) Physical activity surely is a component
of a quality chiropractic healthcare plan for La Grande pain relief.
BENEFITS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR BACK PAIN AND NECK PAIN
In a recent survey, chiropractors reported
that the biggest concern they had in managing back
pain patients was patient follow through (exercises, appointments, at-home instructions,
etc.). (3) In another survey, 90% of chiropractors reported
that they had a positive opinion about healthier patient
lifestyles. These chiropractors also shared that they were actively
engaged in promoting physical activity, suggesting
exercises to patients for their particular condition, inquiring
how the exercises are going, and counseling patients in the
proper way to do exercises as well as value of doing
exercises. (4) One way that patients seem
to respond more positively and be more willing to do
physical activity is using a mobile app. Such
apps help oversee low back and neck pain patients when they
are built around reported pain, pain intensity, and structure of the app like audio
explanation and animation of each exercise. (5) Doing the right exercises in the right way typically
brings about the rightfully desired outcome.
ADD IN SOME DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING!
Core stabilization exercises are commonly
recommended to back pain patients. A new study that added
in diaphragmatic breathing exercises noted many benefits
for chronic low back pain patients: improved muscle activity, chest
expansion, quality of sleep, improved disability and physical activity
and pain scores, less fear avoidance, and increased
physical activity, among others. (6) As a partner on
your healthcare team, your chiropractor at Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC feels a duty
to encourage physical activity so that you can take care of you. Our younger back pain and neck pain sufferers benefit.
Our older adults with aches and pains and/or La Grande back
pain and/or neck pain benefit, too!
CONTACT Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Tony Barton on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr.
Michael Johnson as he details the effectiveness of
The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management in managing chronic
low back pain.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic
appointment now. Don’t let guidelines worry
you when it comes to managing your back pain or neck pain. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC follows
the recent guideline developments and implements the
ones that seem most appropriate for your pain relief.