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JULY 18, 2024

Does Patient Age Impact Virtual Reality’s Ability to Help Relieve Pain?

A proprietary, skills-based virtual reality (VR) program called RelieVRx (AppliedVR) may relieve pain in a diverse set of patients, including older patients, who have chronic low back pain (cLBP).

“The clinically meaningful reductions in pain intensity and pain interference were across the board, regardless of a person’s age, sex, ethnicity, income or education,” study researcher Todd Maddox, PhD, the vice president of clinical research and development at AppliedVR, in Van