ReviewFrontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland)2022
Virtual Reality and the Mediation of Acute and Chronic Pain in Adult and Pediatric Populations: Research Developments.
Review in Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05837247 (Effects of Telemonitoring-supported Game-based Home Exercises on Kinesiophobia, Pain and Quality of Life in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effects of Telemonitoring-supported Game-based Home Exercises on Kinesiophobia, Pain and Quality of Life in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Remapping Body Representation Using Virtual Reality in Chronic Neuropathic Pain: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Pain Management in Musculoskeletal Disorders Across Anatomical Regions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Musculoskeletal care · 2025Pooled it
- Virtual Reality for the Management of Postoperative Pain and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents Undergoing Nuss Repair of Pectus Excavatum: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR perioperative medicine · 2026Trial
- Pain Reduction With an Immersive Digital Therapeutic in Women Living With Endometriosis-Related Pelvic Pain: At-Home Self-Administered Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
- Comparative efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions on emergency delirium in postoperative children: a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2026Article
- Event-related potential evidence that working memory whether inside or outside a virtual reality environment can reduce the extent of attention capture by irrelevant novel stimuli.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Effect of Motion-Controlled Video Games-Based Virtual Reality Exercise on Patients with Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Effectiveness and user experience of a virtual reality intervention in a cohort of patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain syndromes.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Virtual Reality in Acute and Chronic Pain Medicine: An Updated Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- Analysis of pain research literature through keyword Co-occurrence networks.PLOS digital health · 2023Article
- Immersive Virtual Reality to Distract From Pain in Children Treated With L-asparaginase by Intramuscular Injection.Cureus · 2023Article
- Sensory stimulations potentializing digital therapeutics pain control.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Virtual reality hypnosis diminishes experimental cold pain and alters autonomic responses.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The use of virtual reality (VR) in the mediation of acute pain in adults has shown real benefit to patients for the past 20 years. This review of the literature provides a descriptive synthesis of the types of VR technology, the mechanisms by which VR mediates pain, and a history of early research in the area. A review of the use of VR to mediate chronic pain in adults, and both acute and chronic pain in pediatric populations follows. The studies reviewed provide mixed results and it is noted that many studies have small sample sizes, are case studies, and do not control for extraneous variables such as the dosage and type of VR technology used. Although VR is an exciting area of inquiry that promises to yield multiple applications, there is a necessity to conduct larger random controlled trials to better understand the use cases for which VR is most effective.
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