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When the avatar takes away the back pain
Can virtual reality (VR) alleviate the discomfort of pain patients? Another project called ReliefVR in Würzburg aims to find...
Using VR and gaming to combat the pain of children with burn injuries
The paediatric surgeon Dr Markus Palta from the Protestant Hospital in Hamm uses virtual reality (VR) for burns in order to...
Virtual reality as a therapy against back pain
Curing (or at least alleviating) chronic back pain with virtual reality is possible. At least that's what a group of Norwegian researchers believes....
Controller of the future inflicts real pain
Through ThermoReal, virtual reality and augmented reality users can feel the cold or heat of simulated objects and even pain.
Virtual reality at the Children's Hospital Lucerne
Thanks to virtual reality (VR) technology, young patients at the Children's and Adolescents' Emergency Centre at the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital can now...
Emergency medicine at Inselspital uses virtual reality
The Inselspital Bern not only uses virtual reality in training, but also shows in a study,...
Virtual reality in the service of emergency medicine
Pain is one of the most common, but also most challenging, complaints for people in the emergency department. Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming...
VR instead of anaesthesia
Virtual reality is already being used in the UK for operations to reduce pain and after-effects. What does VR...
Hospice fulfils patients' dreams in virtual reality
In the USA, patients experience events in virtual reality that they are no longer able to experience in real...
When VR becomes an emergency
VR glasses are becoming increasingly popular. Accordingly, there are also more injuries in connection with virtual reality (VR) -...
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