Virtual Reality for senior citizens #73
Channel: Virtual Reality For Senior Living Homes Residents
Date: 09/10/2017

https://mybucketlistfoundation.org/

Lives Revived & Memories Survived"

1. Medical Training
 Using VR, a doctor may repeat a procedure many times to perfect a technique and commit the steps to memory more efficiently. CPR
2. Pain Management
Experience less pain and anxiety if they play VR games during their treatments. The ones who played games felt as if they were not even present in the room while they were being treated.Pain is an ongoing issue for burn victims as well. Distraction therapy via virtual reality is being used extensively in helping improve quality of life through pain management. A 2011 study showed that soldiers with burn injuries from IED blasts had better results than with morphine.
3. PTSD
VR has been used in PTSD treatment as far back as 1997. These days, veterans who are continually reliving the trauma they experienced during warfare become acclimated to it through exposure to virtual reality simulations.
4. Phobias
Treating patients with phobias like fear of flying or fear of close spaces using VR lets them face their fears and practice coping strategies. “With VR, you can be transported into another environment, but within minutes you feel like you’re in it.
5. Stress Management
When it became clear that VR could actually alter people’s moods. Study neural circuits and explore how VR can evoke certain moods. “what lights up in the brain with an MRI or other imaging machine and figure out how VR can generate a different mood.”
6. Rehabilitation
One of the more stunning results of virtual reality training, paralysis. Through VR, patients who see themselves from a third-person perspective using their affected limb can actually regain movement and improve mobility.
7. Social Psychology
Enhancing human interaction.
8. Exercise
9. Mindfulness
Chronic illnesses - Virtual reality could help to change that through preventative care, and My Bucket List is all over it.With these benefits in mind. 
10.Virtual Reality also has numerous additional health benefits
Neurological, cardiac rehab, several mental health issues, memory & cognitive skills, arthritis & muscle issues, multiple sclerosis & all levels of mind activity.