The spines of our veterans need beneficial
care. Veterans need access to chiropractic care - just like their fellow
Toronto chiropractic spine pain patients - and now can get
it. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is the Toronto back pain specialty center for
spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for
Toronto veterans and Toronto back pain patients.
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre offers relieving Toronto chiropractic care to any Toronto
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 leading
problems for veterans returning from the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it attribute? Most of us would think
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) Causes of back pain
for non-military folks like Toronto 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 lived with intermittent
radiation of numbness and tingling involving the right lower extremity distal
to the knee. Chiropractic care provided
him a 25% reduction in low back pain severity and a 22% decrease
in perceived disability. The course of conservative,
chiropractic management included 10 treatments of
lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification over an 8-week
period. Even though he’d had this pain a long time, he realized
relief. (4) After 20 years, such reductions in pain and
disability would clearly be cheered by
Toronto back pain sufferers, too.
BENEFICIAL CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR VETERANS’ SPINES INSTEAD OF
OPIOIDS
1999 was the year of the US law empowering
the VA to deliver chiropractic care via private sector
chiropractors. (5) From 2004 (the year the law was passed that chiropractic was to be accessible in the VA system)
to 2015, annual chiropractic VA patients rose 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 allowed to obtain
a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre for care. Many
do not know about this perk or that they can be helped with chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and
your Toronto 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 help
curb its effects for military veterans as it does for
general population Toronto pain patients.
ACCESS TO CHIROPRACTIC EXPANDS IN THE U.S.
Chiropractic researchers attempt to ensure 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 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) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre welcomes the
confidence in chiropractic care this action shows.
CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
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 Toronto chiropractic appointment for
yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is ready to help alleviate the musculoskeletal spine pain and
back pain conditions of all sorts felt by military personnel and
military veterans with chiropractic care.