April 2026 Healthy News from Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC: The Winning Combination: Chiropractic Care and Mind-Body Exercise for Pain, Sleep, and Life Wellness
THE CHIROPRACTIC POTENTIAL TO CHANGE LIVES — NOT JUST SPINES
You decided to come to Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC for your back pain — but research now indicates that your chiropractic care may also be restoring something even more prized: your sleep, your energy, and your quality of life. Exciting new research on active-duty U.S. military personnel with low back pain suggests that is exactly what is happening. In two studies, Shannon and colleagues looked at not just whether chiropractic care was helpful — but how and why it helped. The first, published in BMJ Open, found that chiropractic care improved a broad range of whole-person outcomes — including sleep quality, fatigue, and physical functioning — and that these improvements were directly linked to reductions in how much back pain was interfering with daily life. (1) The second, published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, followed patients for a full year and confirmed that these wide-reaching benefits were real, lasting, and still measurable at both three months and twelve months out. (2) The soldiers and service members in these studies faced powerful physical demands and chronic stress — but their battles with back pain, sleepless nights, and bone-deep exhaustion will sound all too familiar to many of us. If you have been wondering whether chiropractic care is worth a try, or whether it can help you deal with more than just pain, the answer coming out from this research is a resounding yes — your back, your sleep, your energy, and your quality of life may all have something to gain….and your chiropractor here at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is here to help!
La Grande CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: A Simple Habit That Could Help You Sleep Better Tonight
While chiropractic care is reported to be able to improve your sleep, there are things you can do between visits to reinforce even better rest. One comes from a recent study in Frontiers in Public Health that described how mind-body exercises — yoga, tai chi, or qigong — significantly improved sleep quality in middle-aged and older adults by reducing anxiety and boosting emotional regulation. (3) Gentle mindful movement calms the mental noise that keeps us staring at the ceiling. Try inserting just 15 to 20 minutes of slow, mindful movement to your evening routine and let it work beside your chiropractic care here at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. Please chat with us at your next appointment about how this may work for you. Sleep well!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris DeVeau on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relieving treatment protocols of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and the return of better sleep for a patient with [[non-stop]51]unrelenting arm pain who wasn’t sleeping much at all.
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