Women for Health Awards $135,000 Grant to Support Chronic Pain Therapy

The members of Women For Health, Valley’s women’s giving circle, voted to award the group’s $135,000 annual grant to support a program to address chronic pain through an innovative virtual reality (VR) therapy during their annual meeting held at Arcola Country Club.

Presented by Lori Nuzzi, DC, Valley’s Director of Integrative Medicine, the technology repurposes advanced VR gaming technology for healthcare, creating a therapeutic experience for people in pain. The approach features a series of home-based treatment protocols that blend cognitive therapy, mindfulness, pain neuroscience, and more to help retrain how patients’ brains respond to pain.

Membership in Valley’s Women For Health is open to all women. Members contribute an annual gift of $1,000 and consider a variety of worthwhile Valley programs and services to collectively support.