Glasses on - fears gone: at the Zeepreventorium, a renowned rehabilitation centre for chronically ill children in De Haan, Belgium, young patients can now put on virtual reality glasses during treatment. Instead of having to watch the treatment, the children are simply beamed to a different location. This should significantly reduce pain and anxiety.
Virtual reality glasses are already being used more frequently in the medical world, as various Reports we have already shown. Now, however, VR is being used in a paediatric clinic for the first time. 8-year-old Meghan is a patient at the Zeepreventorium and already a big fan of the VR glasses. Watch the video to see how the VR glasses work and why they help the girl to cope with her pain.
Dive into fantastic worlds
Most of the little patients at the Zeepreventorium in de Haan have pain. Acute and chronic pain. Many have already endured a long ordeal of hospitalisation, painful treatments and operations. This makes the fear of each new treatment all the greater. The virtual reality glasses are designed to help young patients. The glasses take children on a relaxing journey where they forget for a moment all the fears and pain that plague them. The little patients can choose different environments, such as outer space or the sea, which are shown like a film. A calm voice accompanies them so that the children calm down and experience less pain.
However, the VR glasses are not only used before painful treatment, but also help children with chronic pain in the long term. Among other things, the children learn relaxation exercises with the help of the VR glasses, which should help them to reduce anxiety and pain in the long term.
Source: rtl
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