chronic pain

After decades of chronic pain and 10 years on painkillers, an Air Force Veteran found relief through a new treatment at VA Eastern Colorado that retrains how the brain responds to long-term pain signals.

Chronic pain interferes with women Veterans’ daily lives. Talk to your VA provider about an individualized pain management plan.

Chronic pelvic pain is a common condition in women Veterans. VA health care providers can identify causes and provide treatment options.

A new “Whole Health for Veterans with Chronic Pain” podcast offers fresh perspectives on chronic pain management for Veterans.

Aquatic therapy helps Veterans overcome physical and cognitive challenges. Sixty-minute sessions are offered for patients in a heated swimming pool at Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville Florida.

VA helped Pete battle alcoholism, live better, and overcome chronic pain. And Pete found a sense of belonging with VA.

Practicing yoga helps Woodi manage her pain. Now this Army Veteran is less dependent on painkillers, more relaxed, and lives better.

After a quadriplegic C-spine injury left her in a wheelchair, Army Veteran Desiree Emilio-Duverge reinvented herself by embracing change, learning adaptive sports and becoming her own boss.

Medially Complex Telerehabilitation addresses functional and motivational needs of Vets through their individual telerehabilitation and coaching sessions. There’s also camaraderie and social support.

California VA physical therapy program combines exercises with instruction on the neuroscience of pain to help older Veterans increase mobility, reduce chronic pain and improve quality of life.

Training conducted virtually by a woman Veteran who has experience with VA services. Women from various VA clinics and facilities around the country answer questions about specific women’s services.

Post-9/11 Veterans have “alarmingly high rates” of insomnia disorder, according to a VA San Diego Healthcare System study. More than half of the Veterans studied had the disorder. Insomnia rates were even higher in Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and chronic pain.