Digital tech becomes new form of new medical treatment

There is no easy way to manage pain or treat trauma patients but doctors and engineers now believe immersive and mobile technologies hold great promise in medical treatment for drug abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder and pain management.

An app named Rest, developed by Pear Therapeutics, could soon become the first digital therapeutic for mental and behavioral health approved as a medical device by the US government, CGTN’s Mark Niu reports from Stanford, California.

Moreover, Pear Therapeutics is also working on an app for schizophrenics and virtual reality (VR) programs that help post-traumatic stress disorder patients re-experience trauma in a safe environment, a concept studied in Stanford Medicine's Virtual Reality Clinic.

Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has tried to adopt the immersive technology VR into distracting patients from pain, leading to reducing use of anesthesia.

(CGTN)