VA is conducting a multi-site trial to test approaches aimed at improving non-opioid pain management while reducing opioid doses in patients with persistent pain.
Researchers are using a combination of genetic manipulation and light to target specific brain regions that they believe are involved in triggering post-traumatic headaches.
Research Week celebrates the accomplishments of VA research, which for more than 90 years has been improving the lives of Veterans and all Americans through health care discovery and innovation.
VA will celebrate 93 years of improving the lives of Veterans and other Americans through the department’s health research and research programs during National VA Research Week held May 14-18.
It's important to continue to improve Veterans' access to a full range of treatments to continue to improve the quality of evidence that guides VA's approach to multimodal pain care.
A board-certified neurologist and neuropathologist, Dr. Ann McKee has published more than 70 percent of the world’s cases of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, an ongoing disease that alters brain function.
Strength training and good nutrition can help prevent sarcopenia, which is the gradual drop in muscle mass, strength and function that comes with aging.
One VA researcher is studying on whether video-game-like apps can help improve cognitive health in older Veterans with traumatic brain injury.
Veterans with Type 2 diabetes and elevated triglycerides have an increased risk for cardiac events and may be eligible to participate in a new study that aims to reduce this risk.
VA researchers studying the underlying issues, delivery of services and prevention of homelessness
The study found that impairment in memory could not be explained by the number of symptomatic concussions an individual sustained over his/her lifetime and was, instead, driven largely by close exposure to a blast.
Who says therapy has to be complicated? Perhaps an effective tool for treatment and recovery could be something as simple as, say … a rocking chair.