HealthTech April 1, 2020
Physicians are using VR tools to educate, to distract and to reduce the need for pain medication.
Already seen in the medical arena as a safe and effective training tool for physicians, virtual reality is finding a new purpose: to help patients manage the pain and anxiety that can accompany a medical procedure or hospital stay.
“As a distraction-based intervention, virtual reality can be incredibly useful,” says Dr. Sam Rodriguez, a pediatric anesthesiologist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, California, which pioneered the concept three years ago. The hospital maintains about 70 VR headsets — including the HTC VIVE, Lenovo Mirage, Oculus Go and Samsung...
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