{"id":5511,"date":"2018-06-19T09:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2018-06-19T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:59:05","slug":"virtual-reality-for-pediatric-pain-relief-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/2018\/06\/19\/virtual-reality-for-pediatric-pain-relief-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Reality for Pediatric Pain Relief Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" data-file-id=\"2780789\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/7ca917ec195446e3aa8f6bcdc\/images\/65fed3af-e96d-4754-a777-707ab2ee4002.jpg\" width=\"310\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Laura Goldstein, PhD<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>received a grant from Childs Play to implement Virtual Reality therapy in the Pediatric Pain Clinic. The\u00a0clinic treats\u00a0children and young adults ages 5-22 years with various types of chronic and often debilitating chronic pain conditions.\u00a0 It is staffed\u00a0by an\u00a0interdisciplinary\u00a0team including Dr Goldstein (a psychologist), a\u00a0physician, a nurse educator, a social worker, and various integrative therapists.This particular virtual reality equipment is targeted towards patients in the clinical setting and includes applications intended for pain management and self-regulation. In addition to the therapies already offered within the pain clinic, the virtual reality glasses will be used during the visits as an interactive and engaging relaxation tool to help the children learn to more effectively manage their pain.\u00a0 Read about how another clinic has implemented Virtual Reality for children\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/health\/article\/For-children-in-pain-virtual-reality-offers-9176380.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Laura Goldstein, PhD\u00a0received a grant from Childs Play to implement Virtual Reality therapy in the Pediatric Pain Clinic. The\u00a0clinic treats\u00a0children and young adults ages 5-22 years with various types of chronic and often debilitating chronic pain conditions.\u00a0 It is staffed\u00a0by an\u00a0interdisciplinary\u00a0team including Dr Goldstein (a psychologist), a\u00a0physician, a nurse educator, a social worker, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5513,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions\/5513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}