Firsthand
Technology for relief of pain
Present chronic pain treatment primarily includes
narcotics, the effectiveness of which is reduced over time. According to a variety of studies that were
enlisted by Firsthand, virtual reality decreases the period of thinking about
pain by 48%, whereas narcotics just by 10%. It’ll decrease the unpleasantness
of severe pain by 38%, while this number is just 16% in the instance of
opioids. In addition, the fun element of virtual reality isn’t comparable to that
of painkillers: 983% boost in a “better feeling” vs. 33% reduction of joy when
using narcotics.
The company based in San Francisco has been a portion
of pioneering teams of researchers who’ve established the industry of virtual
reality pain control and assisted in building the first virtual reality pain
alleviation app, SnowWorld. Firsthand Technologies provide practical and affordable
virtual reality hardware kits and their corresponding software, Cool! and Glow!
Its first one will follow you on a path through changing seasons or a beautiful
landscape, whereas the second allows you to draw amazing light creatures using
your hands. The kits are available for single patients, and additionally for
hospitals.
AppliedVR
for decrease of pain in hospital settings
The start-up that was born out of Lieberman Research
Worldwide, a global market research company, provides VR solutions particularly
for hospitals. They perform clinical research around the effectiveness and
usability of how virtual reality assists patients all throughout their healing
journey, to better acquire, design, as well as make validated therapeutic
virtual reality content more accessible at scale within medical settings.
They’ll brand themselves as a “Netflix” channel of
validated therapeutic content. Top hospitals in virtual reality ongoing trials
and research, like the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center within LA, Children Hospital
in Boston or UCLA partnered up with appliedVR to test the
advantages of the technology for instance in decreasing
labor pain.
Leading
Management Solutions is a healthcare management solutions company providing
assistance and resources to healthcare management. Contact us today at (407) 674-1916 or visit www.lmshealthpro.com to learn more.
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