{"id":216,"date":"2017-11-02T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/?p=216"},"modified":"2018-01-12T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:05:41","slug":"vr-to-complementreduce-opioid-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/2017\/11\/02\/vr-to-complementreduce-opioid-use\/","title":{"rendered":"VR to Complement\/Reduce Opioid Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/opioids-havent-solved-chronic-pain-maybe-virtual-reality-can\/\">Here&#8217;s another article about the potential of VR for acute and chronic pain.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcute pain is a perfect match for VR,\u201d says Hoffman. \u201cYou only need it for 20 minutes and it has drastic effects.\u201d Chronic pain is a different, more challenging problem. Still, he thinks VR has the potential to enhance many treatments that already work. \u201cIf you say, \u2018go home and meditate,\u2019 not many patients will follow through,\u201d Hoffman says. \u201cBut if you give them a VR system and say \u2018go into this ancient world and meditate with monks,\u2019 they\u2019re more likely to actually do it.\u201d VR is just a delivery method: What matters most is what the patients see and experience on the other side of the headset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another article about the potential of VR for acute and chronic pain. \u201cAcute pain is a perfect match for VR,\u201d says Hoffman. \u201cYou only need it for 20 minutes and it has drastic effects.\u201d Chronic pain is a different, more challenging problem. Still, he thinks VR has the potential to enhance many treatments that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1570073,1570081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","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\/216","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\/50638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}