From a report: In a project with echoes of the 2009 film Avatar, an international collaboration of scientists in Australia and the US will search in the Alpha Centauri star system for earth-like planets that could sustain life. The clearance for EaseVRx comes around a month after the FDA approved a VR treatment for children with the visual disorder amblyopia, or lazy eye.Ī new space mission to hunt for potentially habitable planets around Earth's closest neighbouring star system is under way. EaseVRx was developed by the company AppliedVR, which is also testing its platform as a treatment for fibromyalgia pain, burn pains, or pain during childbirth. The VR system could be an alternative option to opioid medications for back pain, Christopher Loftus, acting director of the Office of Neurological and Physical Medicine Devices at the FDA, said in a statement. The reduced pain lasted for up to three months after the study for people in the EaseVRx group but not for the control group. Around two-thirds of participants using EaseVRx said they had more than 30 percent reduction in pain, while only 41 percent of the control group had a similar reduction. Half used the EaseVRx program and half participated in another, two-dimensional virtual reality program that did not use cognitive behavioral therapy methods. The FDA authorized EaseVRx based on data from an eight-week study in 179 people with low back pain that had lasted six months or longer. The program addresses pain through relaxation, distraction, and improved awareness of internal signals, the FDA said in its statement. It uses principles from cognitive behavior therapy, which aims to help people recognize and understand various thought patterns and emotions.
EaseVRx includes a VR headset and a device that amplifies the sound of the user's breath to assist in breathing exercises. The therapy, called EaseVRx, joins the short list of digital therapeutics cleared by the agency over the past few years. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The Food and Drug Administration authorized a virtual reality system as a prescription treatment for chronic back pain, the agency announced today.
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