A neurological-based rehabilitation system to address phantom limb syndrome has been registered by the FDA as a Class II ...

None — BACKGROUND: In the United States, approximately 2.4 million burn injuries are reported per year. Of those hospitalized, 20,000 have major burns involving at least 25 percent of their total body ...

Virtual reality technology has rapidly evolved beyond gaming applications to become a powerful therapeutic tool addressing conditions from chronic pain to PTSD. As hospitals and clinics increasingly ...

Up to 90 percent of people who have lost a limb continue to have pain where the arm or leg used to be. It's called phantom limb pain, and it can be debilitating. James Wolf lost part of his right leg ...

A pilot programme in primary care has managed to reduce the need for analgesics and opioids in patients with chronic pain and has shown promising results in rehabilitation. Immersive virtual reality ...

Imagine being an otter in a virtual world where colors and landscapes unfold in endless possibilities. You engage in a game of paintball with other frisky otters. You follow a river as it travels ...

Several years ago, University of Washington’s Harborview Burn Center successfully experimented with immersive virtual reality (VR) to treat the excruciating pain that comes from debriding and cleaning ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Three months after a cohort of patients used a home-based therapeutic virtual reality program called EaseVRx, ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday that it had approved marketing for a virtual reality system that is designed to help with pain reduction. EaseVRx, a prescription-only, ...