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 West Des Moines chiropractic spine pain patients - and now can get it. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is the West Des Moines back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for West Des Moines veterans and West Des Moines back pain patients. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offers relieving West Des Moines chiropractic care to any West Des Moines 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 leading problems for veterans coming back from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it attribute? Most of us would assume it is because of carrying weighty backpacks and weapons. (2) One study points out that back pain is reported more by military construction and law enforcement personnel. (3) Causes of back pain for non-military folks like West Des Moines 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 while on 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 his disability. The course of conservative, chiropractic management incorporated 10 treatments of lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification in 8 weeks. Despite the fact that he had had this pain for some time, he realized relief. (4) After 20 years, such reductions in pain and disability would clearly be welcomed by West Des Moines 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 provide 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) Recently, 70 VA facilities have chiropractors on staff. (1) Nearly 100 VA facilities still offer little to none. (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 Executive Chiropractic of Iowa for care. Many do not know about this perk or that they can be helped with chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your West Des Moines 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 help curb its effects for military veterans as it does for general population West Des Moines 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 created 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 endorsed expansion of chiropractic services in the VA. Availability is to rise 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) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is grateful for the confidence in chiropractic care this action demonstrates.
CONTACT Executive Chiropractic of Iowa
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 West Des Moines chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is ready to help alleviate the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts faced by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
