None — BACKGROUND: In the United States, approximately 2.4 million burn injuries are reported per year. Of those hospitalized, 20,000 have major burns involving at least 25 percent of their total body ...

A patient with balance issues standing on a bosu ball while batting a playful pufferfish between two dapper penguins. Another seated and holding a weighted ball while kicking at pinball controls with ...

A pilot programme in primary care has managed to reduce the need for analgesics and opioids in patients with chronic pain and has shown promising results in rehabilitation. Immersive virtual reality ...

Up to 90 percent of people who have lost a limb continue to have pain where the arm or leg used to be. It's called phantom limb pain, and it can be debilitating. James Wolf lost part of his right leg ...

The Science Behind Mindfulness for Pain Relief Mindfulness meditation is a technique that has been found to significantly reduce pain in experimental and clinical settings. The present review ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday that it had approved marketing for a virtual reality system that is designed to help with pain reduction. EaseVRx, a prescription-only, ...

Boosting exercise is often on the agenda in the new year, but if you’re struggling to stick to a new fitness regime, University of South Australia research shows that virtual reality (VR) will not ...

The authorization was based on data from a randomized, double-blind study that evaluated the efficacy and safety of EaseVRx in 179 patients with chronic lower back pain. The Food and Drug ...

The latest tool to help reduce chronic pain sounds like it belongs in a video game collection: virtual reality, or VR. It’s a computer-generated three-dimensional environment you can see with special ...

SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) - Teenager Jordan Robinson has faced excruciating pain since a backyard prank went wrong but treatment with virtual reality has given him some relief. Robinson, 18, and ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- After surviving a devastating house fire, Emily Dorsheimer is using the power of Virtual Reality to help her recover. "At first, I didn't think I could get ...