Center for Integrative Pain Management to participate in case study

The WVU Center for Integrative Pain Management has been invited to participate in an Interventional Pain Management project case study with the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and Duke Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.

The WVU Center for Integrative Pain Management will be presented as a case study with two or three other successful integrative pain programs in the U.S.

The offer stems from the participation of Richard Vaglienti, MD, director, with the Alliance of Advanced Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (AACIPM) and the center's cutting-edge approach to integrative pain medicine.

The WVU Medicine Center for Integrative Pain Management strives to treat the whole person, not just the physical symptoms of pain. Its trained providers take the time to figure out the underlying causes of pain and develop an integrative and individualized plan to target the affected area, to provide relief from pain, and improve quality of life.

The integrative approach combines the latest medical treatments with individual and group behavioral therapy, nutritional counseling with a registered dietitian, movement therapy with an exercise physiologist, and natural treatments like acupuncture, massage therapy, and chiropractic care.