Virtual reality as a therapy adjunct during emergency pericardiocentesis

Virtual Reality as an Adjunct Home Therapy in Chronic Pain Management: An Exploratory Study

BACKGROUND Virtual reality (VR) therapy has been successfully used as an adjunct therapy for the management of acute pain in adults and children, and evidence of potential efficacy in other health applications is growing. However, minimal research exists on the value of VR as an intervention for chronic pain. OBJECTIVE This case series examined the value of VR to be used as an adjunctive ther...

Virtual Reality Simulation: A Valuable Adjunct to Surgical Training

The effectiveness of case virtual reality therapy on corona anxiety

In conditions such as the prevalence of COVID-19, many people experience many concerns, including disease anxiety. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of case virtual reality therapy on corona anxiety. The present study was a quasi-experimental study with the control group, pre-test and post-test with random assignment. The statistical population of the present study ...

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for the Treatment of Darkness Phobia

Virtual reality (VR) exposure therapy is a common treatment for phobia and the efficacy of this technique has proved. The darkness phobia is one of the most common disorders among the children. This is the first research about the darkness phobia and using VR to treat the patients. The VR system designed in this article is composed from two parts: Mechatronic devices and graphics unit. As a chi...

Virtual-reality therapy.

BURN PATIENT participates in a virtual-reality program to relieve the pain of his wound care at Harborview Burn Center in Seattle (above). Wearing a headset and manipulating a joystick, the patient maneuvers through the program called SnowWorld (right), which was specifically designed to ease the pain of burn victims. Studies show that virtual-reality programs are more effective than ordinary v...