Virtual reality meditation helps women reduce pain at birth

Virtual reality technology is no longer limited to entertainment, it is contributing more to medicine.

The pain of childbirth is a terrible experience for many women. Looking at "overrun" screaming violently of mothers, many people also have goosebumps. That is why doctors always try to find a way to help them lessen the pain of labor.

A hospital in New York recently tried to reduce labor pains by using virtual reality technology (virtual reality - VR).

Dr. Ralph Anderson, a maternity doctor at the Orange Regional Medical Center, oversees the first births using VR, said: "In a normal delivery room, all mothers focus on pain. But with VR We can make patients constantly distracted and show her how to give birth properly. It's a very successful test. "

VR has also caused mothers to relieve pain during labor, and to guide them to keep their breaths and timing in place - (Photo: AppliedVR).

Specifically, Erin Martucci patient wears a VR device, which has a meditation instruction program. Instead of enduring an increasingly painful labor in the hospital room, she was quickly taken to a relaxing beach, where she could listen to soft music, enjoy the waterfall and the cries of birds right away. next.

Occasionally, a voice will speak, instructing her to focus on specific movements as well as breathing and only to know when to push .

Martucci has stopped most of his pain by focusing on virtual reality and immersed in it. She did not realize that it had been nearly 2 hours since she started wearing VR until she was born.

Erin Martucci and her daughter, born by applying VR during labor - (Photo: The Guardian).

Currently, most women choose to have epidural anesthesia during childbirth, a form that can help prevent pain from labor. These drugs inhibit the movement of signals, but still allow people to control their bodies according to their motor function for childbirth.

However, as with any medication, it comes with some side effects such as temporary hypotension, bradycardia and back pain. Other complications may also arise, including involvement in epidural puncture.

Virtual reality technology is no longer merely a gaming device - (Photo: Reuters).

When using VR, there is absolutely no medicine. Research has also proven how effective it is.

Although some people argue that too much distraction will actually be detrimental to the birth process, this technology not only provides a non-pharmacological option for women but also continues to prove its potential. Virtual reality has far surpassed itself in the past - when only considered "a gaming device".