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 Largo chiropractic spine pain patients - and now can get it. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is the Largo back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for Largo veterans and Largo back pain patients. Hollstrom & Associates Inc offers relieving Largo chiropractic care to any Largo back pain patients seeking 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 primary issues for veterans coming back from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it credited? Most of us would assume it is due to carrying weighty backpacks and weapons. (2) One study points out that back pain is reported more by military construction and law enforcement personnel. (3) Reason for back pain for non-military folks like Largo 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 incurred while on active military duty experienced intermittent radiation of numbness and tingling down the right leg to the knee. Chiropractic care afforded him a 25% reduction in low back pain severity and a 22% reduction in perceived disability. The course of conservative, chiropractic management incorporated 10 treatments of lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification in 8 weeks. Even though he had had this pain for some time, he realized relief. (4) After 20 years, such decreases in pain and disability would clearly be cheered by Largo 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) Currently, 70 VA facilities have chiropractors on staff. (1) Nearly 100 VA facilities still provide little to no availability. (2) If a VA facility does not have a chiropractor(s) on staff, veterans (if they ask) are able to obtain a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Hollstrom & Associates Inc for care. Many don’t know about this benefit or that they can be helped with chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your Largo chiropractic continue to educate 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 Largo 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 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 grow 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) Hollstrom & Associates Inc appreciates 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 Largo chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is well prepared to help ease the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts felt by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
