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US Army researchers are currently assessing the merits of virtual reality games as treatment for burn victims, MetaFilter gleaned from the Chronicle.
In keeping with the study, severely burned veterans play a virtual reality game entitled 'Snow World' while their wounds are being cleaned. Set in an arctic landscape, the game offers the patients a first-person perspective as they maneuver icy crevasses and pelt penguins with snowballs, striving to create the illusion of cold temperatures in the soldiers.
Apparently, the tactic is working. Patients have reported that, while they are playing the game, ordinarily painful wound treatments can be up to twice as bearable. As shown in the ScienCentral video above, MRI scans have reached a similar conclusion: playing the game reduces pain signals in the brain.
With this good news, we're thinking about a story we posted just a little while ago. Could it be that, if virtual reality gaming can reduce physical pain, television viewing could reduce emotional pain? If so, depressed folks who watch lots of TV could be unconsciously treating themselves. [From: The Chronicle via MetaFilter]
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Subscribe to commentsVeraDec 6th 2008 6:00PM
Virtual reality games are proving to play an important part
in the healing process because they are interactive.
Watching too much TV can actually make you depressed.
Let's not confuse one with the other.