This recent study published in the Journal of Medical Extended Reality discusses the development of a virtual reality (VR) intervention integrated within physiotherapy for Veterans.
Read MoreOur partner EXPHYS recently presented a case study at the 2024 ESSA Research to Practice conference that highlights the positive impact of Reality Health’s VR-based pain education platform on pain and function.
Read MoreAdelaide West Physio + Pilates has written an informative blog post that explains the 'Fit for Purpose' model that Prof Lorimer Moseley helped define.
Read MoreAt the recent Gold Coast Health Research and Transformation Showcase, Hannah Kennedy and Darren Doherty had the opportunity to showcase the VR Reality Health platform to attendees, and were invited to share what they have been up to with Channel 9 news.
Read MoreReality Health is thrilled to share the release of a groundbreaking discussion paper titled "Making Pain Education Better: historical underpinnings & recent innovations" authored by globally respected experts Professor Lorimer Moseley (University of South Australia) and Professor Cormac Ryan (Teesside University, UK).
Read MoreReality Health partner IPAR has released some initial results from a new persistent pain program using the Reality Health VR app called Re-thinking Recovery.
Read MoreA new treatment that trains both the brain and the body has shown important effects on pain and disability in a paper just published in Journal of the American Medical Association.
Read MoreIt is one thing to see persistent pain as having tissue-based and pain system-based contributions. It is another thing altogether to know how to guide such a complex protective system towards recovery and to implement it at a high quality. Research in this area is emerging. Reality Health is committed to sharing the progress and providing tools that are based on the evidence in this space to ensure great outcomes for healthcare professionals and their clients.
Read MoreThere are now several randomised controlled trials that show reduction in pain and disability from treatments that combine modern pain science education, based on ‘explain pain’, with brain and body-targeted rehabilitation.
Read MoreBioplasticity refers to the inbuilt capacity of our biological systems to change. Bioplasticity is just like neuroplasticity but involves the entire body and brain. It is such an integral part of humans that it would be more accurate to say that change is not only possible, it is inevitable.
Read MoreTo this day, many health care professionals still hang on to what some describe as the ‘old way of understanding pain’. This is not unusual in health care - a similar reluctance to embrace the true complexity of humans as evidenced by swathes of data, was lamented by another giant in health care - George Engel - almost 50 years ago. He proposed the ‘biopsychosocial model’, which was adapted to pain care by John Loeser and is now discussed, internationally.
Read MoreThe economic burden of persistent pain is massive - in some countries, persistent pain costs the economy more than cancer and diabetes combined. Having persistent pain elevates the risk of a swathe of developing cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, depression, suicide, opioid addiction; it elevates the risk of death by any cause by between 10% and 50%.
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