Virtual Reality Therapy
The chronic pain most of the time results from conditions that are difficult to diagnose and treat, and that may take a long time to reverse. Pain management is multidisciplinary approach that includes pharmacological measures, Researchers are studying the effects of virtual reality games on pain management. In a study of Army burn patients at the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, burn victims play a virtual reality game while they undergo particularly painful treatments.
University of Washington researcher Hunter Hoffman has developed a cool virtual reality game that help in rehabilitation with fun, ‘Snow World’ is a virtual reality game designed by Hunter Hoffman and David Patterson that offering a high-tech way of fighting the pain.
