Biofeedback-Based VR Therapy in Pediatric Patients

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2024-05

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The Ohio State University

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Children and adolescents who need surgery are at a particularly high risk for chronic postoperative pain and opioid consumption. Because of this, our team has been working to develop a non-pharmacologic approach to treating postoperative pain. Biofeedback-based virtual reality is a new therapy intended to reduce pain and anxiety in children and adolescents after they’ve undergone surgery. We have developed ForeVR, a device that measures real-time physiologic data and syncs this with VR breathing games. The aim of this project was to validate the data recorded by the ForeVR device by comparing it to data simultaneously recorded by the Massimo Rad-97, a standard monitoring device commonly used in clinical care. After analyzing the results, we concluded that ForeVR provides breathing data consistent with the Massimo Rad-97, particularly for average respiratory rate and overall respiratory rate time courses. Our next step is to gather more data for validity of ForeVR. Once the accuracy of data capture has been determined, we aim to perform an efficacy trial to assess ForeVR's ability to decrease postoperative pain and anxiety in children and adolescents needing surgery.

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Virtual Reality Therapy, Biofeedback, Pediatric Pain Management, Pain Management

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