Pain Management
Joint and back pain, and other musculoskeletal ailments, have been the most common diagnoses among Veterans who served in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF). Research shows that pain among military Veterans is both more prevalent and more intense than among non-Veterans.
HSR researchers study how pain affects Veterans’ daily function and quality of life; evaluate screening and assessment tools; seek to understand chronic overlapping pain conditions; and develop and test new treatment approaches, with a particular focus on non-drug, complementary and integrative health practices such as mindfulness, acupuncture, and chiropractic care.
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Citations
(recent PAIN MANAGEMENT publications)
- Medich M, Shin MH, McGowan MG, Kasom DR, Lott B, Zeliadt SB, Taylor SL. Patient Reports on How Well Combining Provider-Delivered and Self-Directed Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies Help Their Health and Well-Being. Global advances in integrative medicine and health. 2025 Dec 13; 14:27536130251390862, DOI: 10.1177/27536130251390862.
- Liu Y, Zouaidi K, Hubbard CC, Walji MF, Cooke MR, Rindal DB, Ray KN, Kalenderian E, Suda KJ. High-risk medications in pediatric dentistry: Patterns, outcomes, and clinical implications. Journal of the American Dental Association (1939). 2025 Oct 13 DOI: 10.1016/j.adaj.2025.08.007.
- Adamowicz JL, Grant A, Calvert C, Elchert D, Hadlandsmyth K, Driscoll MA, Taylor SL, Allen K, Taylor BC, Burgess DJ. Differences Among Veterans With Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions and Other Chronic Pain: Baseline Results From the LAMP Pain Management Trial. European journal of pain (London, England). 2025 Oct 1; 29(9):e70125, DOI: 10.1002/ejp.70125.
- Bicket MC, Qi X, Buchwalder K, Chua KP, Lagisetty P, Gunaseelan V, Waljee JF, Brummett CM, Li Y, Nguyen T. Trends in Use of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder among Commercially Insured U.S. Surgical Patients, 2016-2022. Anesthesiology. 2025 Sep 25 DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005771.
- Ilgen M, Blow F, Piette JD, Goldstick J, Lewis M, Priest W, Matharu H, Bourgoise M, Young C, Ashe D, Price A, Lin LA. The psychosocial pain management to improve opioid use disorder treatment outcomes study: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Contemporary clinical trials. 2025 Nov 1; 158:108081, DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2025.108081.
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Publication Briefs
(recent PAIN MANAGEMENT Publication Briefs )
- Giving Veterans an Active Voice in Creating a Veteran-Centered Chronic Pain Research Agenda
Veterans Action League (VAL) 2.0 was a two-year community engagement project (2019–2021) that sought to develop a national Veteran-centered chronic pain research agenda that includes Veteran-generated recommendations for chronic pain management and chronic pain research priorities. Findings showed that Veterans’ most frequently cited need for chronic pain management and treatment was better access...
Date: March 23, 2023
- Research Suggests Battlefield Acupuncture is Immediate but Short-Term Pain Management Tool
This commentary summarizes work conducted to examine battlefield acupuncture’s (BFA’s) implementation and effectiveness within the VA healthcare system. Findings show that there is some evidence that BFA is a potentially effective, immediate, but short-term pain management tool that can be used in adjunct with other pain therapies. BFA produced a minimal clinically important improvement in pain fo...
Date: March 26, 2021
- Integrated Pain Team Programs Improve Outcomes for Chronic Pain and May Reduce Reliance on High-Risk Opioid Therapy
This study examined changes in self-reported chronic pain-, opioid-, and treatment-related outcomes among Veterans with chronic pain following the implementation of a primary care-based biopsychosocial Integrated Pain Team (IPT) model within the San Francisco VA Health Care System. Findings showed that Veterans with chronic pain who engaged in the IPT program reported improvement in several outcom...
Date: February 25, 2020
- Pain Medicine Supplement Features Articles by VA Researchers
This Pain Medicine Supplement highlights health services research conducted by HSR&D investigators at the Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities and Education (PRIME) Center of Innovation in West Haven, CT, as well as other pain researchers. Serving as the only federally funded national pain center, PRIME played a leadership role in the HSR&D-sponsored state-of-the-art conference “Non-pharma...
Date: September 1, 2018
- Racial/Ethnic and Gender Variations in Veteran Satisfaction with VA Healthcare
This study of Veterans’ satisfaction with outpatient, inpatient, and specialist care in a diverse sample of Veterans from predominantly minority-serving VAMCs sought to better understand racial/ethnic and gender variations in healthcare satisfaction. Findings showed generally high levels of healthcare satisfaction across 16 domains, with 83% of respondents somewhat or very satisfied with VA health...
Date: March 1, 2018
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Studies
(recent PAIN MANAGEMENT projects
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CDA 23-145
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Patient-Centered Informatics for Chronic Pain Management |
Griffin, Ashley |
2030-03-31 |
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SDR 24-122
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Pain Management Teams Using Whole Health to Optimize Function and Safety in Veterans: The TEAMWORK Trial |
Edmond, Sara |
2029-09-30 |
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CDA 21-015
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Addressing Disparities In Pain Management |
Javier, Sarah |
2028-07-31 |
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IIR 22-070
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Enhancing an Intervention for Smokers with Chronic Pain using IVR: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Smoking Cessation Counseling for Veterans |
Bastian, Lori |
2028-05-31 |
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IIR 21-207
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Evaluating Group-Based Psychological Treatments over Home Video Teleconference for Older Veterans with Chronic Pain |
Yarns, Brandon |
2028-03-31 |
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