Most veterans with chronic pain are confronting many physical and mental issues happening at the same time. Drs Rosen and Martino talk with PMC about using M2VA case managers to connect veterans coming into the VA Healthcare system with a broad array of resources and services related to pain management.
Marc Rosen, MD, and Steve Martino, PhD, joined PMC to talk about their SBIRT trial which is studying the engagement of Veterans in pain management options when they seek Comp & Pen.
COPES ExTRA trial Co-PIs Alicia Heapy, PhD and Diana Higgins, PhD, talked with PMC about improving access to psychology-based approaches for chronic pain treatment by incorporating technology-based interventions.
PMC interviewed Dr. Christine Goertz to talk about the VERDICT trial, which is focused on “dosing” of chiropractic services.
Diana Burgess, PhD is a social psychologist and Core Investigator of Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Burgess’ areas of research include public health communication about chronic pain and nonpharmacological treatments for chronic pain, with a focus on pain and pain care from the perspectives of women and African Americans. Currently the principle investigator of the PMC LAMP Trial (LINK to TRIAL), Burgess sat down with the PMC to talk about her research.
Video: Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for Postoperative Pain Management Brian Ilfeld, MD, MS, talked with the Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center about his pragmatic clinical trial (PCT) with the PMC. Dr. Ilfeld is the principal investigator of Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Peripheral Nerve Stimulation: A Nonpharmacological Alternative for the Treatment of Postoperative Pain, one of the
Brian Ilfeld, MD, is studying the use of ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve stimulation to treat postoperative pain after ambulatory surgery, specifically after shoulder and ankle and foot surgery.