Distracting patients by immersing them in a virtual world appears to reduce pain, even in the elderly, a new study found.
“I was surprised to see the level of analgesic response that the elderly patients demonstrated, because these subjects had little or no previous experience with video games or virtual reality (VR) distraction, unlike our younger subjects,” Dr Sam Sharar, an anaesthesiology professor at Washington University, said.
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