In an upcoming session of the VA Spotlight on Pain Management Cyberseminars series curated by the Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC), Julie Fritz and Dan Rhon will present “Supporting Whole Person Pain Management in the Military Health System.” The session will be held on Tuesday, January 7, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm eastern.
Improving care for persons with chronic musculoskeletal pain is a priority in the Military Health System. The Military Health System is supporting a shift towards more holistic, whole-person, approaches to pain management. The presenters of this seminar have been researching strategies to implement holistic pain management strategies in the Military Health System and evaluating ways to provide pain care that aligns with the DoD/VA Stepped Care Model for Pain Management.
Fritz is the principal investigator of BeatPain Utah, an NIH Collaboratory Trial, and is a distinguished professor of physical therapy and athletic training and the associate dean for research in the University of Utah’s College of Health. Rhon is a professor of rehabilitation medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Registration is required for participation this live web conference, but there is no cost. Continuing education credits are available for several disciplines for participants who are affiliated with the VA.
For more information, visit the Cyberseminar registration page.
About the PMC
The PMC is an important tri-government agency partnership involving the National Institutes of Health and Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs that supports a growing number of large-scale, multisite, pragmatic clinical trials of nonpharmacological approaches for the management of pain and common co-occurring conditions in military and Veteran health systems. Launched in 2017, the originally supported 11 pragmatic trials are nearing completion and are ready to present early findings, lessons learned in the conduct of the trials, and future directions and opportunities for implementation of important findings and products and for future research.