Virtual Reality Has Real Promise For Pain Relief

Recent studies show how it can help a wide variety of patients

Jason Bowling
Elemental
Published in
5 min readJan 29, 2020

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Over the last 10 years, two of my very favorite people in the world have had to fight advanced cancer, and I’ve come to learn what pain looks like.

I’m not talking about average pain — slamming your hand in a door, cutting yourself badly, even breaking…

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