Bill to Expand Chiropractic Services to All VA Hospitals
From Air Force Times:
After passing trial periods of performance evaluations, and gradually being worked into the military hospital system, chiropractic care is set to expand under this bill going through committee and set to be voted in by the house and senate.
As of now, chiropractic care is available to veterans at VA Hospitals at 60 designated military treatment facilities. This bill, HR 1017: Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act, will expand the requirement of chiropractic services available to all military hospitals.
This will be a tremendous benefit to all vets, and it should save the VA system money for the care of their vet’s musculoskeletal conditions, according to recent cost-saving studies. It will also be safer. Remember that the American Heart Association recently took a stand against the damaging effects of COX-2 inhibitor type of anti-inflammatory drugs for body aches. Chiropractic care is a suitable substitute. Chiropractic care is also much more than the popular notion that it is just spinal manipulation; chiropractors also use a wide array of conservative tools to treat back pain, neck pain, headaches, and other body aches and function problems.
Chiropractors are trained and do very well with diagnosis, so this should help with the trend of a shortage of primary care physicians, and will help save money. While it is hard to recruit nurses, general practitioners and physical therapists due to lack of supply, there are plenty of well-prepared doctors of chiropractic available because there are few employment choices for new graduates from chiropractic college. Most chiropractors are forced to start their own business to make a living. While entrepreneurship can be rewarding, it is not for everyone, and there is a lot of untapped talent ready to report for chiropractic duty in the military.
This is a smart move by our legislatures because the military and our vets who served our country will gain some excellent clinicians providing a valuable service.
Todd Lloyd, DC
Chiropractor in Sonoma
[...] is moving through the House and Senate right now that would put chiropractors in all of the VA Hospitals. This would be a valuable tool for veterans and active soldiers [...]
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Today’s soldiers who are placed in “harm’s way” face the possibility of personal distress at every turn, so it’s no surprise that injuries occur in battle situations. I am glad that they will finally have acces to chiropractic care!