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... Military members who have combat burn injuries can suffer through some of the most intense and prolonged types of pain imaginable. Patients need daily care to clean the wound and daily physical therapy to stretch the newly healed skin...



... according to Maj. (Dr.) Peter DeSocio, an anesthesiologist with the burn center at Brooke Army Medical Center ... "Burn pain is generalized and not easy to treat," DeSocio said. "We can't just give the patient a shot to make it stop."..

 ... Research is now showing that an interactive video game can be one effective prescription for easing the pain and stress during burn wound treatment. For the past two years, a group of military patients have taken part in a study using "SnowWorld," a three-dimensional video game that employs high-tech goggles and earphones, allowing patients to immerse themselves in the game experience.  While in the game, they are drawn into the action as they glide through an icy world of frozen canyons and mountains, and loft snowballs at snowmen, igloos, mammoths, and penguins. It's this frosty experience that allows the wounded warrior to focus on something other than their injuries and the treatment that goes along with it...

 ... The game was designed by Dr. Hunter Hoffman, director of the University of Washington's Virtual Reality Analgesia Research Center, with psychologist David Patterson, the chief of rehabilitation medicine at Harborview Burn Center. It was designed by Imprint Interactive
Technology, based in Seattle, Wash., using NVIDIA graphics and Virtools™ 3D software..

 Read on at: http://www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=1167

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