Made famous amongst Aussie parents by kids who adore going to TimeZone, American psychologist David Patterson, PhD., is now using virtual reality (VR) to distract burn victims from the pain of daily wound care.
While having their wounds cleaned, patients wearing VR visors can play in a computerised world where they have a snowball fight or fly through a canyon.
Tests indicate that those using VR have their pain reduced by up to 50 per cent. “Pain is largely psychological,” Hoffmann says. “The amount of pain you think you’re in is the amount of pain you’ll feel.” While absorbed in the world of VR, he says, the patient has very little consciousness left to process pain.
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