One year ago, Navy Surgeon General Vice Admiral Harold Koenig officially opened the new chiropractic clinic at the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.1
A year later, Donald Baldwin, DC, who heads the chiropractic clinic at the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, was on hand to celebrate the clinic's first anniversary with officers of the naval hospital: Director of Ancillary Services Capt. Wally Campbell; the base commander Rear Adm. Kevin Delaney; and the hospital's Commanding Officer Capt. Milt Benson.
The Jacksonville Naval Hospital, along with nine other military facilities, have completed the first year of a three-year Chiropractic Health Care Demonstration project created by the 1995 National Defense Authorization Act. Chiropractic care is being put to the test for treatment and cost effectiveness in the military setting. Three other military sites not offering chiropractic are being used to compare outcomes.
Active duty members, active duty family members, retired members, and retired family members are all eligible to receive chiropractic care on base, provided their condition has been screened as neuromusculoskeletal. Patients under l7 and those who are pregnant are not eligible to receive chiropractic care.
Reference
1. Military's Chiropractic Demonstration Project Underway. Dynamic Chiropr, Nov. 20, 1995;13(24)1,12.
When I graduated from chiropractic college in 1981 and started practice, I heard it all, and very little was positive. “You are a quack; you do not know what a subluxation is; you couldn’t get into a real health care program, so you chose the one that is slightly above a mail-order degree; you have no proof that chiropractic works; Are you really licensed?”, and so much more.
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