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 Oxford chiropractic spine pain patients - and now have it. Satterwhite Chiropractic is the Oxford back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for Oxford veterans and Oxford back pain patients. Satterwhite Chiropractic offers relieving Oxford chiropractic care to any Oxford 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 foremost problems for veterans coming back from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it credited? Most of us would assume it’s because of carrying heavy backpacks and weapons. (2) One study points out that back pain is found more in military construction and law enforcement personnel. (3) Reason for back pain for non-military folks like Oxford 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 suffered during active military duty felt 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 his 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’d had this pain a long time, he realized relief. (4) After 20 years, such decreases in pain and disability would clearly be cheered by Oxford 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 deliver 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) Currently, 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 get a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Satterwhite Chiropractic for care. Many do not know about this benefit or that they can be helped with chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your Oxford chiropractic persist in educating 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 Oxford pain patients.
ACCESS TO CHIROPRACTIC EXPANDS IN THE U.S.
Chiropractic researchers try 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) Recently, the US House sanctioned 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) Satterwhite Chiropractic 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 Oxford chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Satterwhite Chiropractic is ready to help alleviate the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts suffered by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
