Virtual reality: physiological and behavioral mechanisms to increase individual pain tolerance limits.

ABSTRACT:

Abstract

Immersive virtual reality (VR) consists of immersion in artificial environments through the use of real-time render technologies and the latest generation devices. The users feel just as immersed as they would feel in an everyday life situation, and this sense of presence seems to have therapeutic potentials. However, the VR mechanisms remain only partially known. This study is novel in that, for the first time in VR research, appropriate controls for VR contexts, immersive characteristics (ie, control VR), and multifaceted objective and subjective outcomes were included in a within-subject study design conducted on healthy participants. Participants received heat thermal stimulations to determine how VR can increase individual heat-pain tolerance limits (primary outcome)

SUBMITTER: Colloca L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7584744 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature