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 Manchester chiropractic spine pain patients - and now have it. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is the Manchester back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for Manchester veterans and Manchester back pain patients. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries offers relieving Manchester chiropractic care to any Manchester 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 assume it’s due to carrying weighty 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 Manchester 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 incurred during active military duty lived with 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% lessening in his disability. The course of conservative, chiropractic management involved 10 treatments of lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification in eight weeks. Even though he had had this pain a long time, he gained relief. (4) After 20 years, such drops in pain and disability would surely be cheered by Manchester back pain sufferers, too.
BENEFICIAL CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR VETERANS’ SPINES INSTEAD OF OPIOIDS
1999 was the year of the US law authorizing 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 available 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 offer little to no availability. (2) If a VA facility does not have a chiropractor(s) on staff, veterans (if they ask) are able to get a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries for care. Many don’t know about this benefit or that they can be helped with chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your Manchester chiropractic continue to educate the public about how it can reduce 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 Manchester 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 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) Recently, the US House endorsed 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) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries values the confidence in chiropractic care this action shows.
CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
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 Manchester chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is ready to help alleviate the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts experienced by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
