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The virtual reality, an effective therapy against the anxiety of the patient

A study you present/display before the American for Society Reproductive Medicine reveals that the virtual reality can constitute an effective processing against angusta and the ansidedad that is accustomed to suffers the women during the pursuit of a procedure of fertilization in vitro.

In a group of 93 sterile women submissive sessions of virtual reality during a FIV processing, more of the 80 percent it saw alleviated to its anxiety thanks to the sounds and the views of this special reality. The 40 percent responded in addition that this particular therapy distracted to them of the intervention which they were receiving.

The FIV usually is made with local anesthesia, and can get to be painful and to produce anxiety in the patient.

" We wanted to remove to the patient mentally from the operating room ", indicates doctor Steven F. Palter, author of the study. In Scandinavia one has resorted to acupuncture to reach this same objective, also successfully, according to Palter, that adds that many women are obstinate to this type of processing.

Palter and its colleagues decided to resort to an approach less intimidatory than acupuncture. Their patients saw through apparatuses of virtual reality subterraneas waters, beaches, and listened to classic music. All the women were satisfied after this trip by the virtual reality, and some of them requested to repeat it after concluding the processing.

The virtual reality can be useful in any type of surgical operations, indicates Palter, that now glides to apply the technique in men who are put under a vasectomy.

Europe Press