The spines of our veterans need beneficial
care. Veterans need access to chiropractic care - just like their fellow
Sitka chiropractic spine pain patients - and now can get
it. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is the Sitka back pain specialty center for
spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for
Sitka veterans and Sitka back pain patients.
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka offers relieving Sitka chiropractic care to any Sitka
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 top
issues for veterans coming back from the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it attribute? Most of us would assume
it’s 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 Sitka 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 suffered while
on active military duty felt intermittent
radiation of numbness and tingling down the right leg to the knee. Chiropractic care provided
him a 25% reduction in low back pain severity and a 22% lessening
in his disability. The course of conservative,
chiropractic management included 10 treatments of
lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification in 8 weeks. Even though he’d had this pain for some time, he realized
relief. (4) After 20 years, such drops in pain and
disability would surely be appreciated by
Sitka back pain sufferers, too.
BENEFICIAL CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR VETERANS’ SPINES INSTEAD OF
OPIOIDS
1999 marked the year of the US law authorizing
the VA to provide 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) Currently, 70 VA facilities have chiropractors on
staff. (1) Nearly 100 VA facilities still offer little to none. (2) If a VA facility doesn’t have a
chiropractor(s) on staff, veterans (if they ask) are able to obtain
a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka for care. Many
don’t know about this benefit or that they can benefit
from chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and
your Sitka 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 Sitka 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 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 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) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka values the
confidence in chiropractic care this action shows.
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
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 Sitka chiropractic appointment for
yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is well
prepared to help alleviate the musculoskeletal spine pain and
back pain conditions of all sorts experienced by military personnel and
military veterans with chiropractic care.