Skip Rizzo, associate director for medical virtual reality at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, has been working with the U.S. Army on ways to use Virtual Reality (VR) to treat soldiers' ...

After clearing a major regulatory hurdle to use its virtual reality treatment for chronic pain, AppliedVR is now planning to run multiple VR therapy clinical trials from patients' homes. Curebase, a ...

Matthew Stoudt’s background isn’t in healthcare. He previously served as CEO of Outcast Media, a digital media company. After selling the company in 2014, Stoudt “had to go on a bit of a vision quest ...

There’s been more than 30 years of research into the medical applications of virtual reality, but it’s not until the recent consumer VR revolution that the technology has been cost-effective enough to ...

As legislation at the state and federal level seeks to curb opioid prescriptions, providers are keen to find alternatives to such medication that alleviates patient anxiety and chronic pain symptoms ...

Charisse Sparks, MD, a former Johnson & Johnson executive, has been named chief medical officer of VR therapeutics company Applied VR, according to a March 22 news release. Dr. Sparks was formerly ...

New research on therapeutic virtual reality reports that an in-home, interactive program for chronic pain appeared superior to a non-interactive sham app experience for reducing multiple measures of ...