Albert Rozzo, Director for Medical Virtual Reality, discusses how the use of virtual reality applications can help treat PTSD. With exposure therapy, the goal is about helping a patient, whether it’s due to a simple phobia or PTSD, to engage, to confront and to process difficult, traumatic memories. In the traditional format, you typically do that in imagination alone. But, when you have a disorder where avoidance is one of the cardinal symptoms, sometimes patients may need a little extra boost. So, if patients can be in simulations that mimic or resemble some of their traumatic experiences and do it in a gradual, yet progressive hierarchical fashion, then it really is well-matched to what the need of the clinical approach is.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:04:06 +0000
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