Virtual Reality interventions for acute and chronic pain management

N Ahmadpour, H Randall, H Choksi, A Gao… - The international journal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Virtual Reality (VR) is now consumer ready and nearing ubiquity. In terms of clinical
applications, several studies suggest that VR can be effective as a complementary adjunct …

[HTML][HTML] The effectiveness of virtual reality in managing acute pain and anxiety for medical inpatients: systematic review

V Smith, RR Warty, JA Sursas, O Payne, A Nair… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - jmir.org
Background: Virtual reality is increasingly being utilized by clinicians to facilitate analgesia
and anxiolysis within an inpatient setting. There is however, a lack of a clinically relevant …

Facilitating empathy through virtual reality

NS Schutte, EJ Stilinović - Motivation and emotion, 2017 - Springer
This research experimentally investigated whether virtual reality experience can prompt
greater empathy and whether greater engagement with a virtual reality connects this virtual …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual reality in psychiatric disorders: A systematic review of reviews

B Cieślik, J Mazurek, S Rutkowski, P Kiper… - … Therapies in Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Virtual reality (VR) is being used more and more often as a therapeutic tool in
psychology or psychiatry. In recent years, VR interventions appear more extensively also in …

Virtual reality as a distraction intervention to relieve pain and distress during medical procedures: a comprehensive literature review

P Indovina, D Barone, L Gallo, A Chirico… - The Clinical journal …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: This review aims to provide a framework for evaluating the utility of virtual reality
(VR) as a distraction intervention to alleviate pain and distress during medical procedures …

[HTML][HTML] Recommendations for methodology of virtual reality clinical trials in health care by an international working group: iterative study

B Birckhead, C Khalil, X Liu, S Conovitz, A Rizzo… - JMIR mental …, 2019 - mental.jmir.org
Background: Therapeutic virtual reality (VR) has emerged as an efficacious treatment
modality for a wide range of health conditions. However, despite encouraging outcomes …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming experience: the potential of augmented reality and virtual reality for enhancing personal and clinical change

G Riva, RM Baños, C Botella, F Mantovani… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
During life, many personal changes occur. These include changing house, school, work,
and even friends and partners. However, the daily experience shows clearly that, in some …

[HTML][HTML] Immersive virtual reality and virtual embodiment for pain relief

M Matamala-Gomez, T Donegan, S Bottiroli… - Frontiers in human …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A significant body of experimental evidence has demonstrated that it is possible to induce
the illusion of ownership of a fake limb or even an entire fake body using multisensory …

Virtual reality and music therapy as distraction interventions to alleviate anxiety and improve mood states in breast cancer patients during chemotherapy

A Chirico, P Maiorano, P Indovina… - Journal of cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Psychological distress is a common consequence of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment
and could further exacerbate therapy side effects. Interventions increasing treatment …

Virtual reality as a clinical tool for pain management

A Pourmand, S Davis, A Marchak, T Whiteside… - Current pain and …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To evaluate the use of virtual reality (VR) therapies as a clinical
tool for the management of acute and chronic pain. Recent Findings Recent articles support …