Military Personnel Find Relief from More Chiropractic Care Available in the VA
The spines of our veterans need beneficial care. Veterans need access to chiropractic care - just like their fellow Tonawanda chiropractic spine pain patients - and now can get it. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is the Tonawanda back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for Tonawanda veterans and Tonawanda back pain patients. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation offers relieving Tonawanda chiropractic care to any Tonawanda back pain patients seeking back pain relief!
WHAT HAPPENS TO THEIR SPINES?
Data from the Veterans’ Administration (VA), “diseases of the musculoskeletal system/connective system” like back pain are the top problems for veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it credited? Most of us would think it is because of carrying heavy backpacks and weapons. (2) One study points out that back pain is reported more by military construction and law enforcement personnel. (3) Causes of back pain for non-military folks like Tonawanda residents apply to military, too, like injury, posture, daily activity, weight, stress, genetic defects, etc.
RELIEF FOR A VETERAN
One military officer who had a 20-year history of mechanical back pain secondary to an injury incurred during active military duty experienced intermittent radiation of numbness and tingling down the right leg to the knee. Chiropractic care delivered him a 25% reduction in low back pain severity and a 22% reduction in perceived disability. The course of conservative, chiropractic management involved 10 treatments of lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification over an eight-week period. Despite the fact that he had had this pain a long time, he realized relief. (4) After 20 years, such drops in pain and disability would clearly be welcomed by Tonawanda back pain sufferers, too.
BENEFICIAL CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR VETERANS’ SPINES INSTEAD OF OPIOIDS
1999 marked the year of the US law permitting the VA to deliver chiropractic care via private sector chiropractors. (5) From 2004 (the year the law was voted for that chiropractic was to be accessible in the VA system) to 2015, annual chiropractic VA patients rose by 821%, chiropractic visits by 694%, number of clinics by 9%, chiropractic employees by 21%. (5) Recently, 70 VA facilities have chiropractors on staff. (1) Nearly 100 VA facilities still offer little to no availability. (2) If a VA facility doesn’t have a chiropractor(s) on staff, veterans (if they ask) are able to obtain a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation for care. Many do not know about this perk or that they can be helped with chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your Tonawanda chiropractic continue to educate the public about how it can relieve musculoskeletal pain, back pain, sciatica, neck pain and arm radiculopathy, how it can help with pain management. Today, many veterans - like many others in the general population - are having issues with prescription opioid pain drugs. (6) The opioid epidemic is everywhere; chiropractic care may assist in reducing its effects for military veterans as it does for general population Tonawanda pain patients.
ACCESS TO CHIROPRACTIC EXPANDS IN THE U.S.
Chiropractic researchers strive to ensure that military personnel have access to chiropractic care. One group developed an integrated care pathway for doctors of chiropractic, primary care providers, and mental health professionals who direct the care of veterans with low back pain, with or without mental health comorbidity, within Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facilities. (7) Recently, the US House sanctioned expansion of chiropractic services in the VA. Availability is to rise to at least 2 medical centers/clinics in each Veterans Integrated Service Network by December 31, 2019, and be at 50% of them by December 31, 2021. (1) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation welcomes the confidence in chiropractic care this action demonstrates.
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Listen to this PODCAST from The Back Doctors’ Podcast about a military veteran with multiple spinal issues whose local chiropractor helped him experience relief.
Schedule a Tonawanda chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is ready to help alleviate the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts felt by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
