VR Pain Management Program transcript

Narrator: APM Workers Empowered Pain Recovery Program uses a virtual reality pain management platform developed in conjunction with renowned pain expert. Grounded in the modern neuroscience of pain and the biology of recovery to deliver effective pain education, and combines this with psychosocial risk management and a tailored pain recovery plan. The Technology Integrated Program provides clinicians and consumers with knowledge and actions that empower recovery. (Your hands would be damaged by a real fire.) The challenge is how we get compensated pain concepts across to our clients. Virtual reality is a completely immersive experience that shows the client what is happening to their body, rather than telling them. Allowing for complex neurobiological and bio-psychosocial topics to be learned and understood. (Causes the release of special hormones called endorphins.) In the vast majority of cases, chronic pain is not associated with an identifiable underlying tissue problem. Evidence shows that understanding how pain works is the critical first step towards engaging in effective treatment. Participants develop an understanding of how their own pain experience has been formed, and a challenge by our consultants in their understanding of modern pain science and how they can modulate their pain experience. (Hold the object over the basket and release the trigger button). The program combines education, movement and runs alongside existing treatment interventions to set injured people up for long term success and provide them with the skills to be an active participant in their ongoing recovery.