VR MEDICAL THERAPY
Virtual Reality is ubiquitous in the worlds of gaming and entertainment, but the opportunity for VR to transform medical therapies is endless. In the near future, VR will become a common treatment option for PTSD, exposure therapy, chronic pain, and other conditions.
At the University of Washington, burn patients undergoing medical procedures can wear headsets to play uniquely designed VR games. The games provide an immersive environment that soothes and distract patients from their excruciating pain, drastically reducing their need for highly addictive narcoticmedications.
VR therapy is so successful in transforming a patient's mental and emotional state that it could have wide range of applications in healthcare: from pain management, to pediatric care, and treating psychological conditions like PTSD and anxiety disorders. VR companies have a huge opportunity to design both hardware and therapeutic games for many different medical treatments.