{"id":180,"date":"2017-04-27T09:23:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/?p=180"},"modified":"2017-05-11T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T22:00:50","slug":"dr-tarnia-tavernerdr-published-in-delta-optimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/2017\/04\/27\/dr-tarnia-tavernerdr-published-in-delta-optimist\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Taverner discusses our VR Cancer Chronic pain project in the Delta Optimist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could virtual reality be a breakthrough treatment to help ease the suffering of chronic pain in cancer patients? That&#8217;s one of the questions a pair of UBC professors from South Delta is hoping to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Our study is recruiting cancer patients who also suffer from chronic pain and meet the following eligibility criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Age 16 or older<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Previous or current medical diagnosis of cancer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Previous or current treatment by chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormonal treatment, or surgery<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Currently an outpatient (not hospitalized)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chronic pain sufferer (suffering ongoing daily pain for 3 months or more with a Neuropathic Rating Pain Scale score of 4 or more) <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Able to understand the English language, and read and write English<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Have normal stereoscopic (binocular) vision<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Able to easily move your head up, down, left and right and wear a headset<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Have fine motor control in one hand sufficient to operate a joystick\/control<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Have space at home for a computer and monitor equipment<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more info and for the news article please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delta-optimist.com\/news\/using-virtual-reality-to-ease-chronic-pain-1.16991183#sthash.66Jg69FE.dpuf\">http:\/\/www.delta-optimist.com\/news\/using-virtual-reality-to-ease-chronic-pain-1.16991183#sthash.66Jg69FE.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could virtual reality be a breakthrough treatment to help ease the suffering of chronic pain in cancer patients? That&#8217;s one of the questions a pair of UBC professors from South Delta is hoping to answer. Our study is recruiting cancer patients who also suffer from chronic pain and meet the following eligibility criteria: Age 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1570073,1570081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vr-news","category-vr-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}