{"id":179,"date":"2016-12-12T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T09:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=179"},"modified":"2016-12-13T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T09:22:56","slug":"veterans-affairs-yoga-acupuncture-and-physical-therapy-alternatives-to-opioids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Affairs: Yoga, acupuncture and physical therapy alternatives to Opioids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says its decision to reduce Opioids is part of an effort to alleviate veterans\u2019 pain through non-prescription methods, which could include physical therapy and alternative medicine like acupuncture and yoga. Mountain Home VA is working to taper veterans with non-cancer pain off of their pain medications, because doctors, federal guidelines and research say the risks, particularly the possibility of overdoses, far outweigh the benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s their statement:<br \/>\n\u201cThere is an emphasis on patient education, use of methods of pain management such as physical therapy; close patient monitoring with frequent feedback; and complementary and alternative medicine practices like acupuncture and yoga, for example,\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wjhl.com\/2016\/12\/07\/va-yoga-acupuncture-and-physical-therapy-alternatives-to-opioids\/\">WJHL News Channel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says its decision to reduce Opioids is part of an effort to alleviate veterans\u2019&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acupuncture","category-alternative-medicine","category-articles","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}