Fw: [ACA-Members] Chiropractic Profession Honored to Serve Veterans This Memorial Day

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Dear Colleagues,

Please see the post below from the ACA regarding honoring our active duty

personal and veterans and ensuring they receive chiropractic care. On June

14 the Oregon Chiropractic Association will be meeting with key VISN 20

officials at the Portland VA Medical Center with Congressman Kurt Schrader

leading the discussion on increasing Oregon's veterans access to

chiropractic care. For far to long the Portland VA has not gotten

chiropractic care to our Oregon veterans as should be occurring and the

center still doesn't have an " on-station " chiropractic physician. The hope

of our meeting is that the Portland VA and VISN 20 officials will move

forward with what Congress directed 11 years ago our honored veterans

deserve better and the Oregon Chiropractic Association is going to see that

they get it. " Stonewalling " " foot dragging, " and " buck passing, " may have

worked in the past to wear down some who simply get frustrated with VA

officials and then finally go away....well the OCA has been working on this

issue since 2008 four years now and will continue to do so until our

veterans receive what they so rightly deserve chiropractic!....and we are

not going away...ever!! Have a wonderful weekend.

Vern Saboe DC.

Lobbyist, Oregon Chiropractic Association

ACA Delegate for Oregon

Member, ACA Military and Veterans Affairs Committee

[ACA-Members] Chiropractic Profession Honored to Serve Veterans

This Memorial Day

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 25, 2012

Chiropractic Profession Honored to Serve Veterans This Memorial Day

ACA Vows to Continue Its Fight on Behalf of Nation's Heroes

Arlington, Va. -This Memorial Day, the American Chiropractic Association

(ACA) honors those who have served our nation by reaffirming its commitment

to increase access for veterans and active-duty military members to the

services provided by doctors of chiropractic.

Men and women of the Armed Forces make huge sacrifices in service to our

country, including sacrifices to their health. A February 2010 Department of

Veterans Affairs (VA) report cites " diseases of Musculoskeletal

System/Connective System " such as back pain as the No. 1 ailment of Iraq and

Afghanistan veterans accessing VA treatment. Doctors of chiropractic (DCs)

are experts in the treatment of neuromusculoskeletal problems and their

natural approach can in some cases eliminate or reduce the need for drugs

and surgery.

Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed

Services recognized the benefits chiropractic services by including strong,

pro-chiropractic language in its committee report for the fiscal year 2013

National Defense Authorization Act. The language asserts that services

provided by DCs for our nation's men and women in uniform is of " high

quality " and has become a " key " benefit within the military health care

system.

For more than a decade, ACA has advocated for inclusion of chiropractic

physicians and increased patient access to chiropractic services in the

veterans and military health care systems. ACA initiatives resulted in a

federal law in 2000, which opened access to chiropractic in the military and

another, in 2001, requiring veterans to have access to chiropractic care.

Today there are chiropractic physicians working at 42 VA medical centers and

at 60 Department of Defense (DoD) facilities around the world.

Underscoring the value of chiropractic care to veterans, ACA's Immediate

Past President Dr. Rick Mc was recently named " Veteran Advocate of

the Year " by the Vietnam Veterans of America, Buckeye State Council. Dr.

Mc was honored in recognition of his tireless personal dedication to

enhancing the health and wellness of America's veterans. He was first

appointed to the DoD Oversight Advisory Committee for the Chiropractic

Health Care Demonstration Program in 1994 and first appointed to the

Chiropractic Advisory Committee for the VA in 2001. In 2005, he was

appointed to serve on the Chiropractic Health Care Benefit Advisory

Committee, a DoD advisory panel charged with evaluating the integration of

DCs into the military health system and with making recommendations for the

future. In 2009, he testified before the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs

Committee in support of Sen. Patty Murray's bill to expand the services of

DCs to all veterans through inclusion of DCs in all major VA health care

facilities.

" ACA is committed to working with all branches of the military and VA

systems to ensure that the services provided by doctors of chiropractic are

available anywhere in the world to the men and women who serve our great

country,' " says ACA President Dr. Overland. " It is the profession's

honor to be a part of the health care system that treats veterans. America's

heroes do not have to suffer in silence with the common neuromusculoskeletal

ailments associated with their service. "

The American Chiropractic Association (ACA), based in Arlington, Va., is the

largest professional association in the United States representing doctors

of chiropractic. ACA promotes the highest standards of patient care and

ethics, and supports research that contributes to the health and well-being

of millions of chiropractic patients. Visit www.acatoday.org.

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