Relieving Chiropractic Care Relief of La Grande Leg Pain Right or Left
Left leg. Right leg. Leg pain (aka sciatica) will affect either leg (and sometimes both). La Grande chiropractic care at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC helps reduce leg pain and addresses the spinal cause of the sciatica at the same time. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC guides La Grande leg pain and back pain patients to pain relief with chiropractic care.
SCIATIC LEG PAIN: Right Leg or Left Leg
You’ve heard of right-handed people and left-handed people, right? Sure! Did you know that the right leg grows longer in left-handed people and the left leg grows longer in right-handed people? Not all the time, but research has it documented in pretty high percentages. Bearing this in mind, it’s not surprising that there are more people with longer left legs (53%) than right legs (39%). Incredibly, just 8% of people have equal leg lengths. (1) What role does that play in which leg will have sciatic leg pain? Discs will bulge into the concavity of the curve owing to a variety of issues like uneven stresses on the disc’s anulus. The concavity of the spinal curve is on the long leg side. A right-handed person with a long left leg will likely experience leg pain on the left side. Another curious point: hip pain often occurs on the long leg side, too: 88.9% long leg versus 11.1% short leg. Sciatica is the same: 78.5% happens on the long leg side vs 21.5% on the short leg side. (2,3) Your La Grande chiropractor can see a short leg pretty easily by examining 3 things: iliac crest, the verticality of the spine, and levelness of the posterosuperior iliac spine dimples. Researchers stated that there is a solid relationship between visual and xray measurements. (4) Trust your La Grande chiropractor to find a short leg…and take care of any related disc herniation causes of pain!
DISC HERNIATION RE-ABSORPTION WITH NON-SURGICAL CARE
A new study examined 75 cases of ruptured lumbar disc herniation. 46 of the 75 cases had radiating leg pain: 46 cases on the left and 29 on the right. (Makes sense now, yes?) At 5 years follow-up after non-surgical treatment, a “reabsorption” phenomenon was found. The excellent and good rate of disc reabsorption was 73.24%. (5) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC provides relieving non-surgical care of La Grande leg pain and back pain.
RELIEF FOR La Grande LEG PAIN and BACK PAIN
And then remember the new paper regarding the benefits of chiropractic maintenance care: Maintenance care reduces the number of painful days in acute back pain episodes and raises the length of pain-free periods between back pain episodes in patients with recurrent and persistent back pain. (6) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is here for those back pain and leg pain patients looking for fewer days with back and leg pain and those who want to live life with longer periods without leg and back pain.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Cameron McConville on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eases sciatic leg pain radiculopathy along with related back pain issues.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic appointment at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC today to find relief from La Grande leg pain and sciatica no matter which leg is hurting!
