The healthcare costs for treating pain for wounded military personnel, veterans, and their families have grown exponentially. To either mitigate or completely resolve these issues for both one's personal well-being and U.S. economic practicality and stability, new approaches outside the Western medical model of intervention are required. A number of complementary and alternative healing modalities are providing substantive results in both arenas, thus reducing pharmaceutical and long-term healthcare dependencies and, most importantly, addressing the much-needed physical and psychological challenges faced by military personnel, veterans, and their families.