ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Pain Reduction after Short Exposure to Virtual Reality Environments in People with Spinal Cord Injury.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Use and efficacy of virtual, augmented, or mixed reality technology for chronic pain: a systematic review.Pain management · 2022Pooled it
- Virtual Reality Interventions and Chronic Pain: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Developing a Dietary Questionnaire for Rural Mexican Americans.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Article
- Virtual Reality Interventions for Spinal Cord Injury-Related Neuropathic Pain: A Comprehensive Scoping Review of Multidimensional Outcomes.Journal of pain research · 2025Review
- Immersive virtual reality for chronic neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury: a pilot, randomized, controlled trial.Pain reports · 2024Article
- Virtual Reality as a Therapeutic Tool in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Evaluation and Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Progress in treatment of pathological neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Editorial for the Special Issue "Chronic Neuropathic Pain Therapy and Anaesthesia".Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- 180-degree immersive VR motion visualization in the treatment of haemophilic ankle arthropathy.Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia · 2023Article
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Abstract
Emerging literature suggests that virtual reality (VR) may be a viable therapy for neuropathic pain (NP). This pilot study aimed to investigate the immediate effect of VR in reducing NP in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Eight individuals with chronic NP after SCI were recruited and underwent consecutive exposure to scenery and somatic virtual environments (VE). The numeric rating scale (NRS) was used to assess pain before and after exposure to each VE. The Immersive Tendencies Questionnaire (ITQ) and Presence Questionnaire (UQO-PQ) were used to investigate the interaction between reported pain relief post-intervention with immersion and presence. There was a significant reduction in pain levels (5.1 ± 0.4, mean ± SEM) after short exposure to the scenery (3.1 ± 0.7,
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