Virtual Reality for Pain

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Virtual reality is helping change the way we treat and ease pain for some patients. Researchers are using virtual reality to help distract patients from painful procedures. They've found that virtu...

Virtual reality is helping change the way we treat and ease pain for some patients. Researchers are using virtual reality to help distract patients from painful procedures. They've found that virtual reality can help patients through any number of painful procedures. Doctors are using it to focus on burn care patients. It's an elaborate distraction, a way to pull people's attention away from the procedure itself and the pain the procedure causes.

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