Virtual Pain Relief

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Postby Michael Lank » Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:44 am

This article on the BBC News website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3514937.stm describes the use of virtual reality guided imagery in the control of pain.
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Postby Roger Elliott » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:20 pm

Interesting, so there we have VR environments for pain, corresponding with internally-generated environments through hypnosis, and VR desentisation, corresponding to dissociative trauma approaches such as the Rewind Technique.
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Postby kfedouloff » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:36 pm

What does it cost to create these VR systems? I have no doubt they are very effective, but can you see the PCTs forking out for them? On the other hand, a hypnotherapist can help someone create a custom virtual world at "virtually" no cost. You'd think this would be a "no brainer". Sadly, that's what there seems to be out there: no brains!

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