Discover Virtual Reality to Manage Pain, Mobility Impairments, Anxiety, Sleep and More!

Course Description

How do you encourage clients to engage in therapy for optimal results?  Can you create encounters that are highly entertaining and engaging to boost patient compliance with the treatment plan for positive functional outcomes? Immersive virtual reality (VR) offers an exciting innovative approach to managing chronic pain, sleep and anxiety, and mobility limitations. In this foundational course, explore the incredible opportunities for engaging your patients in this emerging technology to achieve positive results they will rave about.

Learn how VR offers a customizable environment to build therapy plans of care that stimulate patients’ interest while providing the challenge they need to master mobility skills in greater comfort and with a new sense of enjoyment.  In this brief introduction, we will focus on how to use VR for pain remediation and mobility enhancement.  How many of your patients are afraid to do everyday tasks due to pain limitations?  Learn how to incorporate VR to make those functional gains clients hope for, to improve quality of life and ease pain.

Dive into the digital age with us as we explore the latest innovative technology that transforms an ordinary day of rehab into an immersive experience that facilitates compliance with therapeutic activities to build those positive outcomes you aim for.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Define Virtual Reality (VR) immersion technology and explain its role in rehabilitation for pain management.
• Discuss how immersive technology provides a compelling environment to stimulate patient engagement in the recovery and rehabilitation process.
• Employ VR to tackle pain with distracting environments that facilitate calmness within the nervous system using mindful activities and distraction. Shift focus away from pain into an engaging setting to retrain the brain on pain.
• Modify the level of challenge in your therapeutic programs in real time to promote functional change.
• Discuss the latest evidence on the effectiveness of VR to promote function and ease pain.

• Prerequisites

  None

• Educational Level

  Basic

• Other

  Satisfactory completion of this course will require the participant to respond to poll questions asked throughout the webinar.