As I had indicated earlier, I would like to say there are no barriers to chiropractic care really. We do access chiropractic care. When I was a physician in Shilo, Manitoba, I had a great chiropractor in Brandon I would refer to regularly for low back pain because it worked and I was trying to do what was best for my soldiers. So I know physicians across the country are accessing chiropractic care.
When I spoke about the study, I think it's looking at changing the model somewhat. Right now the model is that we have our CDU, which I had described earlier, and we refer out to chiropractic care. In terms of whether or not there is some better way to integrate the chiropractor into that team, and whether or not that would produce other benefits other than the way we currently access chiropractic care, we are constantly reviewing the medical literature to find out what is the best way to provide care to our soldiers.
We are open to care that is evidence based when that evidence arises. We are engaged in research ourselves to try to develop evidence, in particular through the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, which we helped to set up in order to look at the things that are specific to Canadian armed forces personnel and veterans.