Winifred Rojas

ORCID: 0000-0003-0002-3766
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Research Areas
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Anesthesia and Pain Management
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes

Henry M. Jackson Foundation
2017-2024

Defense & Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management
2017-2024

Jackson Foundation
2018

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
2017

Abstract Background Ongoing postoperative pain assessments are vital to optimizing management and attenuating the development of poor health outcomes after surgery. This study aimed characterize acute multidimensional trajectories impact on physical function, sleep, mood, stress examine clinical characteristics demographics associated with trajectory membership. Additionally, this compared levels intensity prescription opioid use at 2 weeks 1 month postoperatively across symptom...

10.1093/pm/pnac203 article EN public-domain Pain Medicine 2022-12-28

Abstract Objectives The National Institutes of Health Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) is a multidimensional screening system evaluating biopsychosocial factors affecting pain and functioning. Using military sample, the current study 1) examined structure domains PROMIS, Defense Veterans Pain Rating Scale 2.0 (DVPRS), Catastrophizing (PCS) within presurgical setting 2) relationship these variables to pre- postsurgical opioid use. Methods This cross-sectional...

10.1093/pm/pny246 article EN public-domain Pain Medicine 2018-10-11

BACKGROUND: Pain trajectories have been described in numerous surgical settings where preoperative characteristics used to predict trajectory membership. Suboptimal pain intensity linked poor longitudinal outcomes. However, biopsychosocial modulators of postoperative may also distinct that inform additional targets improve recovery. METHODS: Patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty, thoracic surgery, spine major abdominal or mastectomy completed Patient Reported Outcome Measurement...

10.1213/ane.0000000000005758 article EN Anesthesia & Analgesia 2021-09-30

Massage therapy is an evidence-based approach for pain management. Information regarding its utilization in the Military Health System (MHS) lacking. The goal of this study to evaluate massage patterns across MHS include who receives (patient characteristics and diagnoses) provides (e.g., therapists) where clinic type).

10.1093/milmed/usae299 article EN public-domain Military Medicine 2024-06-11
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