How will virtual reality change the healthcare industry?
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Virtual Reality has indeed already changed the healthcare industry. Moreover, healthcare is one of the “hottest” industries, where Virtual Reality is rapidly hitting a place for itself.
Relief of the sensation of pain
Here one’s doctor does prescribe to pick up the app, where one can hide in the huts, which are made of snow or other materials. The environment does place the patients in a condition where one, simply gets pleasure from sightseeing. This does effectively help to calm down and distract the patients from quite unpleasant burning sensation throughout one’s body. Currently, special healthcare applications are being developed, and are being widely made use of to distract from painful procedures effectively, owing to which, it is possible to do without the anesthesia.
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One of such healthcare applications is no doubt a video game SnowWorld, from the University of Washington. Despite the fact that all this is of course in the process of the development stage, the numerous clinical results do indicate very encouraging results.
Virtual reality and exposure therapy
Virtual reality exposure therapy is made use of, particularly with the soldiers, who survived post-traumatic stress syndrome, caused by hostilities. The essence of the therapy doe lies in patient’s immersion in simulation, where he then drives the Hammer and suddenly a homemade device tends to explode in a certain place.
This is indeed a special opportunity for the soldiers to say, especially for those, who survived the war, how it was and how it was indeed awful. This is a peculiar stimulation of the imagination, where the patient is rather trying to work over the trauma or any other problems by a specific provocative method.
Virtual Reality as a tool to conquer phobias
The above-mentioned exposure therapy is indeed very useful for the standard treatment for phobias.
The patient, under the supervision of a psychologist, does meet something that does cause fear. For example, a man has a fear of public speaking. Virtual realities technologies do help cope with them by “acting” in front of a virtual audience.
Frequently observed spider phobia is also worth paying attention to. One of the first prominent healthcare applications, in order to treat spider phobia, is Spider World.
Virtual Robotic Surgery
Robotic surgery has indeed become popular virtual technology. The semantics of the term does seem to be a bit intricate, but still. The process of fulfilling the operation is the following: A robotic device does perform the operation but is controlled by a human surgeon. It is a plain, sublime interaction, which does decrease time, and also reduces the risk of complications.
Virtual reality has also, in fact, found its application in educational purposes and in the area of Remote Telesurgery, where the operation is carried out in separate place for the patient. The main idea of this specific system is indeed revealed in force feedback, where a surgeon can evaluate the amount of pressure to use when performing delicate action procedures.
