FDA approves virtual reality system to ease back pain
Nov 17, 2021
EaseVRx system uses number of cognitive behavioral therapy methods to achieve pain relief
FDA approves virtual reality system for treatment of chronic back pain
By
Alicia Lasek
Nov 17, 2021
EaseVRx is designed for home use and is available by prescription to patients with clinically diagnosed lower back conditions, FDA says.
Virtual reality, brain health, pest pressures featured topics at Oct. 21 Online Forum
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 15, 2021
Earn up to two continuing education credits Oct. 21 by attending the latest McKnight’s Online Forum. The event will kick off at 10:30 a.m. ET with “Pest pressures in a rapidly changing world.” Speaking...
$2M virtual reality trial to gauge impact on senior living residents with dementia
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 20, 2021
The Phase II trial will evaluate how virtual family engagement affects quality of life for 400 older adults in 12 U.S. long-term care communities.
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Aug. 11
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 11, 2021
Proposed bill ‘great first step’ toward addressing long-term care workforce challenges … CMS offers new Section K assessment and coding training for SNF providers … ‘POLST is more than a code...
A new rehabilitation system is designed to promote motor, cognitive and functional ability in people who have suffered a stroke.
Stroke survivors can get therapy via virtual reality platform, study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Nov 25, 2019
Multi-user mode appears to be particularly engaging in a VR platform that brings together stroke survivors and remote rehabilitation therapists.
How skilled nursing facilities are using virtual reality to enhance resident stays
By
Sushant Abrol, PT, MS, DPT and Jennifer Wenk
May 14, 2018
The use of virtual reality can help improve the lives of seniors with mobility problems who require physical rehabilitation and for those residents who are unable to leave the facility.
A Day In the Life: Taking a walk on the virtual side
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 08, 2018
As the leaves were falling outside Ebenezer Minneapolis last fall, a new reality was taking hold inside.
‘Virtual hands’ take stroke rehabilitation into a new realm, researchers believe
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 19, 2013
3-D glasses soon might be seen in long-term care facilities as well as movie theaters, thanks to a potential breakthrough in stroke rehabilitation. Stroke survivors in a study successfully used a virtual...