pain management

A paper published in the Journal of Medical Extended Reality outlines how AI, generative virtual reality and multilingual voice cloning may help pain management.

The company has received backing from the state government of Western Australia.

However, researchers found that participants' tendencies toward anxiety or pain catastrophizing affected which intervention worked better.

In a recent study funded and coauthored by the company, the EaseVRx program outperformed a non-interactive headset app across several self-reported pain and pain-interference measures.

Since launching its SedaKit for Digital Sedation product in June 2019, the Belgian company said more than 60,000 patients have used its digital therapy.

The study found that high-risk patients who used the telehealth consultation feature also had better outcomes than their peers who did not. 

According to a paper titled Pain Management in the Elderly Population: A Review published in The Ochsner Journal in 2010, pain may be underreported because some elderly patients incorrectly believe that pain is a normal process of aging.

Patients with long-term pain were more likely to log high-pain events in their apps on days with certain weather conditions, such as high humidity.

The funding will also support further development of the technology and new staff hires.

Pain is usually an indication something wrong with the body and the typical approach to pain is to take appropriate medicine that will help alleviate that pain.