Virtual-reality Video Game To Help Burn Patients

For a while, we’ve known that video games can help people forget about their pain for a while. If the game involves them enough, they can use it to escape. Even the Wii game system has found a spot in helping people with their activity games.

In Loyola University Hospital in Maywood, Illinois, the therapists have begun to use a game called SnowWorld to help burn patients as they go through their very painful, sometimes excruciating treatments. The software was actually designed specifically for this purpose by Hunter G. Hoffman, Ph.D., and David Patterson, Ph.D., research scientists in Seattle.

By choosing the winter theme, the designers hoped that the winter coolness would act on the senses, helping remove the patients from the pain of the burns.

You can read more about this program here: Virtual-reality Video Game To Help Burn Patients Play Their Way To Pain Relief

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