METHOD FOR ANALGETIC THERAPY OF PATIENTS WITH MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS USING VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGIES Russian patent published in 2025 - IPC A61B6/00 A61B5/117 H04N13/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, particularly to oncology, and can be used in symptomatic and palliative therapy of a tumour process of any localisation. Method includes use of virtual reality technologies. For this purpose, developed is a special program based on Unreal platform, which is a set of images of virtual environments in 3D format with viewing angle 360°, with melodic relaxing background music, such as underwater world, forest and mountain landscapes in different seasons and time of day. Immersion into virtual reality takes place in equipped room in sitting position. Before immersion, the patient receives instructions on using the program – a menu of virtual environments, navigation buttons, a stop gesture to attract the attention of a doctor and immediately exit virtual reality. Before the first immersion session, the doctor selects the sound volume parameters comfortable for the patient, the distance between the eyes and from the eyes to the lenses, and tests the patient's immersion with practicing the stop-gesture until the comfortable use of the program. At the beginning of each session, a paper bag is given to the patient in case of retching. After the session, the patient is in chair for 5 minutes. Therapeutic course makes 10 sessions of 20 minutes each.

EFFECT: method is well tolerated by the patients, relieves a pain syndrome intensity over a short period of time.

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