A significant number of patients report reduced pain after only 15 minutes of virtual reality immersion.
Virtual reality isn’t just for computer games anymore. Increasingly, the medical community — and insurers — are taking notice of its effectiveness to distract an individual from pain.
At Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, Calif., Dr. Brennan Spiegel has already found virtual reality (VR) therapy, which uses wearable technology to manage pain, effective in the hospital setting. Now he’s…
