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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 Manahawkin chiropractic spine pain patients - and now have it. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is the Manahawkin back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for Manahawkin veterans and Manahawkin back pain patients. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center offers relieving Manahawkin chiropractic care to any Manahawkin back pain patients wanting 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 coming back from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it credited? Most of us would assume 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 Manahawkin 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 incurred 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 his 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 for some time, he gained relief. (4) After 20 years, such drops in pain and disability would surely be appreciated by Manahawkin back pain sufferers, too.

BENEFICIAL CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR VETERANS’ SPINES INSTEAD OF OPIOIDS

1999 marked 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 passed that chiropractic was to be available 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 able to get a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center for care. Many don’t know about this benefit or that they can be helped with chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your Manahawkin 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 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 Manahawkin 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) Recently, the US House endorsed expansion of chiropractic services in the VA. Availability is to grow 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) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is grateful for 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 Manahawkin chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is well prepared to help ease the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts experienced by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.

Manahawkin chiropractic care helps relieve spine pain and back pain for many locals, and its availability for veterans and military personnel increases in the VA to help more.  
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