The Effect of Virtual Reality on Pain and Memory.

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · Mar 6, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

The primary outcome measure was the participants' accuracy of remembering the pattern of a total of five pain stimuli per set. Using the Quantitative Sensory Testing "method of limits", each participant selected a temperature they found "painful but tolerable" that they were willing to receive several more times, later in the study. They then received a sequence of five brief stimuli to their wrist, with a brief inter-stimulus interval between each stimulus.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • must be English speaking (but English does not necessarily need to be native/first language).
• • must be willing to follow our UW approved instructions,
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Not capable of indicating pain intensity
• • Not capable of filling out study measures
• • Non-English-speaking
• • Extreme susceptibility to motion sickness
• • Seizure history
• • Unusual sensitivity or lack of sensitivity to pain
• • Sensitive skin
• • sensitive feet
• • migraines
• • cold symptoms
• • Diabetes
• • Or if you are under 18 years old

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