Resources

The Whole Health Model
Physicians who practice using a whole health model have an expanded toolbox for care of the whole person—taking into consideration the patient’s current medical issues, plus past history and their life goals. This is particularly helpful for veterans who suffer with chronic pain and often experience comorbid mental and physical health issues such as addiction to opioids or other substances and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), among other diagnoses and symptoms. With Whole Health, the aim is to help veterans focus on life goals as they work to manage their chronic pain and other ailments.
Resources for Pain Management

Developing a Plan for Chronic Pain Relief
The experience of chronic pain is more than just the pain itself. Pain can affect how a participates ...
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Talking Points: Preparing for a Provider Visit
It is important to honestly and openly share your experiences with chronic pain with your provider(s). You’ll want ...
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Talking About Chronic Pain
Bob Kerns, PhD, offers tips on how to prepare for conversation(s) about chronic pain and putting together a ...
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The Value of Studying Non-Pharmacological Therapies for Pain Management
(Video) Robert Kerns, PhD, discusses alternative therapies for chronic pain management and the importance of research to develop ...
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Research Publications

Pain: Considering Complementary Approaches (eBook)
This 47-page eBook provides an overview of complementary health approaches for pain, including acupuncture, massage therapy, meditation, spinal manipulation, yoga, ...
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The Use of Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Younger US Veterans: An Economic Evaluation
Researchers, including PMC PI Stephanie Taylor, PhD, MPH, conducted the first study of cost effectiveness of complementary and integrative health ...
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Covariate Adjustment in Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trials in Pain Research
An overview of considerations for covariate-related methodological, statistical and analytical issues, and some additional considerations to studying pain management options ...
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Non-Opioid Drugs and Pain-Related Function
The SPACE Randomized Clinical Trial, led by Erin Krebs, MD, MS, showed that opioids do not result in better pain-related ...
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Yale Scholars Tackle Opioid Crisis in Groundbreaking Journal Issue
More than two dozen Yale professors, doctors, and students have published a series of groundbreaking articles on the opioid crisis ...
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The VA Opioid Safety Initiative Cyberseminar
Chronic pain is more common in Veterans than in the non-veteran U.S. population, more often severe and in the context ...
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Non-Pharmacological Approaches to Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Management
Treatments such as mindfulness meditation, biofeedback, and hypnosis, among others, have been determined to have at least promising evidence of ...
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Considerations of Trial Design and Conduct in Behavioral Interventions
For some nonpharmacological approaches for chronic pain management there is emerging evidence of their effectiveness in relatively large scale trials ...
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Noninvasive Nonpharmacological Treatment for Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review
The US Dept. of Health & Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has issued a report on ...
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JAMA Medical News & Perspectives
Robert Kerns, PhD, spoke with JAMA about the creation of the Pain Management Collaboratory and its goals for this multi-agency ...
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Effectiveness Research on Mind and Body
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health presents "Strengthening Collaborations with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of ...
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