Integration of virtual reality into the program of non-drugtreatment of pain and early rehabilitation

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of non-drug treatment of pain from the standpoint of a biopsychosocial approach using virtual reality (VR) as well as the possibility ofintegrating this methodinto an early rehabilitation program for neurological patients. The historical aspects of discovery and integration of VRinto medicine and the results of using the method to reduce the intensity of pain in patients with burn disease the possibility of using VR technology in anesthesiology and resuscitation as an alternative to narcotic analgesics for certain types of intervention are presented The use of VR is promising in the motorand cognitive rehabilitation ofpatients with various pathologies ofthe central nervous system and can be used at any stage of rehabilitation at low financial costs with minimal involvement ofmedical personnel in the hospital and outpatient settings.