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 Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic spine pain patients - and now can get it. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is the Ashburn and Herndon back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for Ashburn and Herndon veterans and Ashburn and Herndon back pain patients. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn offers relieving Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic care to any Ashburn and Herndon 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 leading problems for veterans returning 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 points out that back pain is found more in military construction and law enforcement personnel. (3) Causes of back pain for non-military folks like Ashburn and Herndon 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% reduction in low back pain severity and a 22% reduction in perceived disability. The course of conservative, chiropractic management included 10 treatments of lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification in 8 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 clearly be appreciated by Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferers, too.
BENEFICIAL CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR VETERANS’ SPINES INSTEAD OF OPIOIDS
1999 was the year of the US law permitting the VA to offer chiropractic care via private sector chiropractors. (5) From 2004 (the year the law was passed that chiropractic was to be available the VA system) to 2015, annual chiropractic VA patients increased 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 able to get a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn for care. Many do not know about this option or that they can benefit from chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic persist in trying to get the word out to the public about how it can help 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 Ashburn and Herndon 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 approved expansion of chiropractic services in the VA. Availability is to expand 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) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn values the confidence in chiropractic care this action demonstrates.
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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 find relief.
Schedule a Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is ready to help ease the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts experienced by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
