Military Personnel Find Relief from More Chiropractic Care Available in the VA
The spines of our veterans need suitable care. Veterans need access to chiropractic care - just like their fellow Williamson chiropractic spine pain patients - and now have it. Apple Country Chiropractic is the Williamson back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for Williamson veterans and Williamson back pain patients. Apple Country Chiropractic offers relieving Williamson chiropractic care to any Williamson back pain patients seeking back pain relief!
WHAT HAPPENS TO THEIR SPINES?
According to Veterans’ Administration (VA) data, “diseases of the musculoskeletal system/connective system” like back pain are the foremost problems for veterans coming back from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it attribute? Most of us would think it’s because of carrying heavy backpacks and weapons. (2) One study reports that back pain is found more in military construction and law enforcement personnel. (3) Reason for back pain for non-military folks like Williamson residents apply to military, too, like injury, posture, daily activity, weight, stress, genetic defects, etc.
RELIEF FOR A VETERAN
One military officer with a 20-year history of mechanical back pain secondary to an injury sustained while on active military duty experienced intermittent radiation of numbness and tingling down the right leg to the knee. Chiropractic care delivered him a 25% decrease in low back pain severity and a 22% reduction in his disability. The course of conservative, chiropractic management included 10 treatments of lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification in eight weeks. Despite the fact that he’d had this pain for some time, he gained relief. (4) After 20 years, such reductions in pain and disability would clearly be appreciated by Williamson 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 offer 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 none. (2) If a VA facility does not have a chiropractor(s) on staff, veterans (if they ask) are allowed to obtain a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Apple Country Chiropractic for care. Many don’t know about this option or that they can be helped with chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your Williamson chiropractic persist in trying to get the word out to 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 struggling with prescription opioid pain drugs. (6) The opioid epidemic is everywhere; chiropractic care may help curb its effects for military veterans as it does for general population Williamson pain patients.
ACCESS TO CHIROPRACTIC EXPANDS IN THE U.S.
Chiropractic researchers attempt to make sure 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 manage 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 grow to at least two medical centers/clinics in each Veterans Integrated Service Network by December 31, 2019, and be at 50% of them by December 31, 2021. (1) Apple Country Chiropractic appreciates the confidence in chiropractic care this action demonstrates.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST from The Back Doctors’ Podcast about a military veteran with multiple spinal issues whose local chiropractor helped him find relief.
Schedule a Williamson chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Apple Country Chiropractic is well prepared to help ease the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts felt by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
