Chronic pain education delivered with a virtual reality headset in outpatient physical therapy clinics: a multi-site exploratory trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Chronic pain is multidimensional, requiring expanded interventions for optimal management. Pain education, mindfulness training, and virtual reality (VR) are showing promise, but barriers remain for implementation by clinicians. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences with a pain education and mindfulness intervention for patients with chronic low back pain and their treating clinicians.

Methods

This was a prospectively designed exploratory trial registered at ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04777877. Patients were identified by study staff and consented. Baseline and follow-up questionnaires and surveys were collected with quantitative and qualitative data. Patients viewed five videos explaining key pain concepts and guided imagery nature videos using a VR

SUBMITTER: Brown L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10250992 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature