Video Game Helps Severe Burn Patients Endure The Pain Of Treatment, Rehabilitation

No one can any longer claim video games are a complete waste of time! Now they can have actual medical value.

Heh, the brain is a funny thing isn't it?

ETA; sorry I forgot to include the link...here it is.
http://www.medgadget.com/2007/08/snowworld_vr_for_pain.html

 

Very interesting, I think experiments such as these demonstrate the brain's plasticity or ability to make new neural pathways.

This experiment seems like next generation therapy along the lines of VS Ramachandran's "Mirror Box" where patients who had lost a limb and experienced phantom pains in the non-existent limb, were placed in front of a mirror device to give the illusion of having both limbs again. the illusion of having say 2 hands again provided pain relief and pain reduction in those experiments as well.

 

damn that looks like an intesne videogame

 

I heard a program on that. Weird and wild stuff!

 

Playstation magazine had a demo disc in it years ago from Japan where you were a mosquito.

I remember flying between a woman's toes before I landed on her leg and (well you know).

I was trying to not get smashed by her while getting my required amount of blood.

Let me tell you, life as a mosquito is hard, lol.

VR is awesome. Good Idea for use here, I say.

 

Ha ha, yeah the graphics on 'snowworld' don't look terribly compelling do they, lol


They need to hook up with the Houser bros (Rockstar)

 

I attribute my hand/eye coordination skills to video games.

 

There was some discussion about the propensity for prosocial videogames to cause positive psychological effects in my Social Psych. text, but it didn't mention this.

It's interesting. Probably helps with PTSD too.

 

video games/pc simulations are doing amazing things these days and it pretty much started with this

Pong Game