Two-step treatment improved function, decreased pain severity in veterans
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 12:50
in Health & Medicine
A stepped-care strategy improved function and decreased pain severity, producing at least a 30 percent improvement in pain-related disability, investigators report. Although U.S. military veterans who have returned from Iraq or Afghanistan are more likely to suffer chronic pain than veterans of any other conflict in American history, little headway has been made in helping them manage the often debilitating effects of chronic pain, authors say.