Why VR is Efficient for Distraction from Pain but Insufficient for Lasting Health Improvement – Benefits, Limitations and the New Solution
Virtual Reality in medical settings has grown in popularity in recent years. Numerous studies have shown how VR can help significantly reduce pain, anxiety, and discomfort for patients with various conditions, with the greatest concentration of studies demonstrating VR’s positive effects on burn pain, cancer pain, phantom limb pain, chronic pain, rehabilitation, and pain attenuation with various other causalities (1). Companies like AppliedVR, VRHealth, VR Vision, Deep VR, The body VR, FeelsGood, OnComfort, Firsthand Technology, and Rescape Innovation are developing various engaging VR solutions for pain and healthcare-related stress which are improving the patient experience by creating powerful distraction from the distress of treatment and introducing fun into the equation.
The Crisis in Healthcare and a New VR Solution – VRsano
Ideally the healthcare system, as indicated by its name, should be unified in its goal to provide efficient care, not only treatment, for the full spectrum of people’s health as well as to ensure a fulfilling professional realization for those working in it. Instead, for quite some time the healthcare system has felt more like a battlefield of opposing forces and conflicts of interests when the focus should be the health of the general public and fostering scientific advances to ensure it. The distrust between the 4 participants (patients, providers, payers and vendors) is exponentially growing due to numerous pitfalls within and among the 4 receiving ends of the healthcare experience.
VRsano Explained Part 3 – Clinical Hypnosis
Clinical hypnosis is one of the modules utilized by the patented VRsano method. It alters the psychosomatic state of the patient and is used to guide the patient into a state that is optimally responsive to medical treatment, faster recovery, symptom alleviation, and general health.
In this series of blog posts we break down each of the three main modules of the VRsano method – VR, neurofeedback, and clinical hypnosis. We explain how they are each used traditionally, their benefits and limitations, and how VRsano is employing them in a new, maximally efficient way.
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VRsano Explained Part 2 – Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback is one of the modules utilized by the patented VRsano method. It helps patients develop a sense of control over their psychophysiological functioning through the measurement and manifestation of brain wave data as events in the VR immersive environment which activate operant conditioning.
In this series of blog posts we break down each of the three main modules of the VRsano method – VR, neurofeedback, and clinical hypnosis. We explain how they are each used traditionally, their benefits and limitations, and how VRsano is employing them in a new, maximally efficient way.
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VRsano Explained Part 1 – Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality is one of the modules utilized by the patented VRsano method. VR is a clinically effective method for distracting patients from the distress of the medical environment and refocusing their attention onto a pleasing and relaxing alternative experience.
In this series of blog posts we break down each of the three main modules of the VRsano method – VR, neurofeedback, and clinical hypnosis. We explain how they are each used traditionally, their benefits and limitations, and how VRsano is employing them in a new, maximally efficient way.
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