The results of patients undergoing wound care are striking. Reported pain while experiencing SnowWorld is dramatically lower than that of patients not using VR. Moreover, in an fMRI study, healthy people volunteered to experience pain stimuli when in an fMRI machine. Some of them also experienced (magnet-friendly) virtual reality during the fMRI. The VR subjects had less pain-related brain activity than the non-VR subjects.
The lab is also working on water-friendly virtual reality gear (as you can see from the photo, they use a head-mounted display), using VR to treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (a full post on that later), and VR for Spider Phobia, among various other projects.
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Virtual reality enables the surgeon to control the movements of the robotic arm, in particular, small, delicate movements which would be difficult to perform by a human surgeon. Another use is ‘remote telesurgery’ where the patient is operated on by a surgeon who is in a different location.
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