Background: eHealth interventions are becoming increasingly used in public health, with
virtual reality (VR) being one of the most exciting recent developments. VR consists of a …

Virtual reality is a technology that allows users to experience a computer-simulated reality
with visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory aspects. In recent decades, there has been …

Burn patients engage in repetitive painful therapeutic treatments, such as wound
debridement, dressing changes, and other medical processes high in procedural pain …

Background Social influences are important modulators of pain. Experimental studies
demonstrated analgesic effects of explicit social support. As digital health care gains …

Medical procedures, open surgery, physical therapy, and rehabilitation have benefited from
the effectiveness of technologies like VR as a supplemental tool to pharmacological pain …

Background Psychosocial factors, such as social support, can reduce pain. Virtual reality
(VR) is a powerful tool to decrease pain, but social factors in VR‐based pain analgesia have …

In this study, we tested the hypothesis that increased body movement while steering a virtual
reality game leads to the diminished experience of pain. We also investigated the …

In this study we investigated the relationship between body movement during virtual reality
(VR) analgesia and the experience of pain. Thermal (cold) stimulation was used to inflict …

Research done in recent years shows that Virtual Reality (VR) can be an effective tool for
distracting attention from pain. The purpose of this study was to test how the complexity of …

Virtual Reality (VR) technology can be applied during pain treatment, acting as an effective
distractor from pain stimuli. In our paper we investigate how memory influences experienced …