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 Groton chiropractic spine pain patients - and now have it. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is the Groton back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for Groton veterans and Groton back pain patients. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers relieving Groton chiropractic care to any Groton 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 foremost problems for veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it attribute? Most of us would think it is 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 Groton 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 during active military duty felt intermittent radiation of numbness and tingling involving the right lower extremity distal to the knee. Chiropractic care provided him a 25% decrease in low back pain severity and a 22% reduction in perceived disability. The program 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 a long time, he realized relief. (4) After 20 years, such reductions in pain and disability would surely be welcomed by Groton back pain sufferers, too.
BENEFICIAL CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR VETERANS’ SPINES INSTEAD OF OPIOIDS
1999 was the year of the US law empowering 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 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 have little to no availability. (2) If a VA facility does not have a chiropractor(s) on staff, veterans (if they ask) are allowed to get a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office for care. Many do not know about this perk or that they can benefit from chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your Groton 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 assist in reducing its effects for military veterans as it does for general population Groton pain patients.
ACCESS TO CHIROPRACTIC EXPANDS IN THE U.S.
Chiropractic researchers strive 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) 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) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office values the confidence in chiropractic care this action shows.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
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 Groton chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is well prepared to help alleviate the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts felt by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
