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 Fernandina Beach chiropractic spine pain patients - and now have it. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is the Fernandina Beach back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for Fernandina Beach veterans and Fernandina Beach back pain patients. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic offers relieving Fernandina Beach chiropractic care to any Fernandina Beach back pain patients wanting 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 foremost issues for veterans coming back from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it attribute? Most of us would assume it is due to carrying weighty backpacks and weapons. (2) One study reports that back pain is found more in military construction and law enforcement personnel. (3) Causes of back pain for non-military folks like Fernandina Beach 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 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% decrease in perceived disability. The course of conservative, chiropractic management incorporated 10 treatments of lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification in 8 weeks. Even though he’d had this pain a long time, he gained relief. (4) After 20 years, such decreases in pain and disability would surely be appreciated by Fernandina Beach 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 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 doesn’t have a chiropractor(s) on staff, veterans (if they ask) are allowed to obtain a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic for care. Many don’t know about this perk or that they can benefit from chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your Fernandina Beach 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 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 Fernandina Beach pain patients.
ACCESS TO CHIROPRACTIC EXPANDS IN THE U.S.
Chiropractic researchers attempt to ensure that military personnel have access to chiropractic care. One group created 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 sanctioned expansion of chiropractic services in the VA. Availability is to rise 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) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic values 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 Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is ready to help ease the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts faced by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
