ArticleJournal of medical extended reality2024
Perspective: The Promise of Virtual Reality as an Immersive Therapeutic.
Article in Journal of medical extended reality, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Immersive and Nonimmersive Virtual Reality-Assisted Active Training in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Skill-Based Virtual Reality Therapy in High-Impact Chronic Pain: 2-Year Follow-Up Results From a Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Efficacy of Virtual Reality vs. Tablet Games for Pain and Anxiety in Children Undergoing Bone Pins Removal: Randomised Clinical Trial.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Trial
- A feasibility and acceptability of virtual reality as a pain relief measure post primary and revision total knee replacement surgery in a hospital setting: quasi-experimental study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- Evaluating the Effects of Clinician Prescribing and Implementation Materials on Adoption of Virtual Reality Therapeutics: Randomized Feasibility Pilot Study.JMIR XR and spatial computing · 2026Article
- From innovation to implementation: a case report on virtual reality for chronic pain and psychological well-being in clinical practice.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Twelve-month results for a randomized sham-controlled effectiveness trial of an in-home skills-based virtual reality program for chronic low back pain.Pain reports · 2024Article
- Sociodemographic Predictors of Clinical Effectiveness, Therapeutic Program Engagement, and Device Usability for an In-Home Virtual Reality Program for Chronic Low Back Pain: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical extended reality · 2024Article
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Abstract
In this perspective, we discuss the promise of virtual reality (VR) as an immersive therapeutic (ITx) delivery device. We review the neurobiology of learning and show that VR broadly engages multiple learning systems in the brain in synchrony thus having the unique potential to increase the effectiveness and speed of therapeutic change. We examine one application of VR in the delivery of chronic pain management therapy. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of current therapies such as pain education and cognitive behavior therapy and suggest that VR has the potential to deliver self-administered, accessible, low risk, in-home chronic pain therapy. We briefly review effectiveness data from an FDA-authorized 8-week self-administered behavioral skills VR program for chronic low-back pain called RelieVRx
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