Review article
Virtual Reality in Medicine
Hrvoje Brajčić
Mirna Šitum
Abstract
For the last few years, we have been witnessing a surge of commercially available virtual reality systems that are on a high grade of usability for both professional and home-based application. Early examples of virtual reality systems used in the medical field were highly sophisticated, expensive and hard to use devices. Now we have reached a point where both prices and ease of use are at a level that it can be easily applied even as a home therapy system. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the use of virtual reality in selected practical medical fields: psychotherapy, rehabilitation therapy, medical training, and pain management. This review demonstrates different fields of medicine where virtual reality is already an established tool and medical fields where it has just started to become an indispensable tool for a modern-day medical practitioner. We find virtual reality systems to be powerful immersive tools that allow both practitioners to improve their skills and experiences without any damage to the patients and patients to receive better and more personalised care and treatment.
Keywords
virtual reality; phobia therapy; rehabilitation therapy; medical training; pain management.
Hrčak ID:
243964
URI
Publication date:
15.6.2020.
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