Is virtual reality useful for pain management in patients who undergo medical procedures?

ABSTRACT Pain management is a complex medical issue, and many efforts have been done to develop new non-pharmacological therapies. Virtual reality is a technology apparatus that make an interaction between human and virtual environment through an hardware (usually a headset) linked to a computer or...

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Main Authors: Daniel Melecchi de Oliveira Freitas, Viviane Souto Spadoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
Series:Einstein (São Paulo)
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-45082019000200800&lng=en&tlng=en