Feb 2018 v01 online

Virtual reality has proved indespensible in new
approaches to the idea of both reparative and
other forms of therapy. Not only can it be
usedful for psychological or mental forms of
therapy, such as anger management, ease of
social distress, etc, but has even created new
avenues of treatment in the realms of physical
therapy, changing the lives of amputees with
phantom limbs, motivating physiotherapy
patients, and more. Take a look at some of the
below codes to learn more.
Virtual Reality Redefines Physical Therapy; a blog post detailing the uses
of virtual reality in patient motivation, and the face of patient
forgetfulness regarding home exercises to their detriment. Virtual
reality creates a whole new way for the patient to understand, and
reason for the patient to participate in, physiotherapy applications for
their own health and recovery.
Virtual Reality Treatment Relieves Amputee's Phantom Pain: Post
amputation, many patients suffer excruciating pain due to remaining
brain representation of a missing limb without any actualisation. This
website article details an “experimental treatment, in which signals
from [the subject’s] limb stump controlled a virtual reality arm”,
greatly decreasing his pain after 48 years of ineffective pain
management.
An overview of Bravemind; a VR programme that utilises the presentday
general treatment of exposure therapy in a virtual environment,
creating safer, more customisable, cheaper and far more applicable
applications of exposure therapy for sufferers of PTSD. “Currently
distributed to over 50 sites, including VA hospitals, military bases and
university centers, the Bravemind system has been shown to produce
a meaningful reduction in PTS symptoms.”
Is virtual reality the next big thing in addiction treatment? VR therapy for
addiction, in the case of this rehab centre’s website article alcohol
addiction, has been found to have positive outcomes in exposing
patients to relapse-inducing triggers and helping them to create and
manage healthy coping mechanisms and stifle physiological responses.