Military Personnel Find Relief from More Chiropractic Care Available in the VA
The spines of our veterans need good care. Veterans need access to chiropractic care - just like their fellow San Jose chiropractic spine pain patients - and now can get it. Chiropractic Solutions is the San Jose back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for San Jose veterans and San Jose back pain patients. Chiropractic Solutions offers relieving San Jose chiropractic care to any San Jose back pain patients wanting 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 chief issues for veterans returning 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 reported more by military construction and law enforcement personnel. (3) Reason for back pain for non-military folks like San Jose 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 felt intermittent radiation of numbness and tingling down the right leg to the knee. Chiropractic care provided him a 25% decrease in low back pain severity and a 22% decrease in perceived disability. The program of conservative, chiropractic management included 10 treatments of lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification over an 8-week period. Even though he had had this pain a long time, he gained relief. (4) After 20 years, such decreases in pain and disability would clearly be welcomed by San Jose back pain sufferers, too.
BENEFICIAL CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR VETERANS’ SPINES INSTEAD OF OPIOIDS
1999 marked the year of the US law empowering the VA to provide chiropractic care via private sector chiropractors. (5) From 2004 (the year the law was passed that chiropractic was to be accessible in the VA system) to 2015, annual chiropractic VA patients grew 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 provide 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 Chiropractic Solutions for care. Many don’t know about this option or that they can be helped with chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your San Jose 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 help curb its effects for military veterans as it does for general population San Jose 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 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) Lately, the US House endorsed expansion of chiropractic services in the VA. Availability is to grow 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 Solutions appreciates the confidence in chiropractic care this action shows.
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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 San Jose chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Chiropractic Solutions is ready to help ease the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts suffered by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
