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Wellness Wednesday: Program helps veterans who suffer from chronic headaches
Dr. Jason Sico, the national director for the Veterans Health Administration Headache Center for Excellence, meets with his patients virtually nowadays.
“I’ve been doing telehealth for 10 years and it’s been ramped up in earnest during the pandemic,” he said.
The program he runs aims to better understand how veterans are suffering.
“Trying to get a sense of how many veterans have headaches, what type of headache disorders do they have, what kind of treatments are they getting, do they live in rural areas, urban areas,” Sico added.
They then put the data into action, to meet the needs that are out there.
“In order to improve something, you have to understand what the baseline is,” he said. “We know traumatic brain injury, the signature injury, can lead to headache. It’s become increasingly important for Congress, as well as the Veterans Health Administration, to understand how many veterans have headaches and how we can do our best to help them.”
Source: EyeWitness News 3