Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

Chiropractic for Military Low Back Pain

27 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this podcast segment, the speaker explains how the biopsychosocial model applies to chiropractic care for active‑duty military personnel who face a high risk of musculoskeletal and low‑back pain, a leading cause of combat‑duty interruption. He notes that contemporary clinical practice guidelines now prioritize non‑invasive, non‑pharmacologic, multimodal first‑line treatments for low back pain, positioning chiropractic as a core component of that approach. The discussion then turns to the proposed mechanisms of chiropractic adjustments—ranging from local biomechanical alterations to systemic biochemical changes in the brain—and argues that these effects collectively produce substantial therapeutic benefits for service members.

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This study is highlighting how does the biopsychosocial model fit within this and specifically with chiropractic. So we know people who are in the military have an exceptionally high risk of musculoskeletal pain and it's one of the most common reasons for interruption to combat duty. We also know that clinical practice guidelines, as I said a moment ago, have really changed, evolved and got to the point where they should have been a long time ago, highlighting non invasive and non pharmacological treatments as the best first line therapies for low back pain and specifically using multimodal care with chiropractic as a key component of it. And why a lot of times that dives into the really extensive mechanisms of action with what we can do as a chiropractic adjustment. As we've discussed many times on this podcast, the local the biomechanical changes to biochemical markers in the brain, all of those things make a really, really big impact and they really leverage the power of what we do for the benefit of the patient. In this case active duty military members.