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REAL System for Rehabilitation
Share PrintThis collaboration will help VA Immersive explore opportunities to adopt and incorporate immersive technologies into rehabilitation programs and evaluate 24/7 access to virtual reality (VR) experiences designed specifically for the user. This pilot allows providers to deliver rehabilitation care to Veterans and to expand access to care by providing VR-based rehabilitation care in community-based outpatient clinics, particularly within orthopedics, neurorehabilitation and chronic condition management (e.g., pain). It is cost effective but does not compromise the effectiveness of care.
Origin:
April 2023, Des Moines VA Medical Center (Des Moines, Iowa)
Adoptions:
5 successful
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Overview
Problem
Rehabilitative medicine is critical to Veteran care, but there are many challenges to implementing this care. Veterans’ access to rehabilitation services is often plagued by long wait times, limited resources and/or physical geographical barriers to care. Addressing these issues suggests the need for a comprehensive, multifaceted approach, but these approach
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Rehabilitative medicine is critical to Veteran care, but there are many challenges to implementing this care. Veterans’ access to rehabilitation services is often plagued by long wait times, limited resources and/or physical geographical barriers to care. Addressing these issues suggests the need for a comprehensive, multifaceted approach, but these approaches are often expensive and limited.
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Solution
The collaboration between Penumbra, Inc. and VA Immersive bridges the gap between Veterans and access to effective rehabilitative medicine solutions. It offers 24/7 access to VR experiences designed specifically for the user.
This pilot uses the REAL System y-Series, which includes a tablet, ahead-mounted display, sensors, operating software and a library ... The collaboration between Penumbra, Inc. and VA Immersive bridges the gap between Veterans and access to effective rehabilitative medicine solutions. It offers 24/7 access to VR experiences designed specifically for the user.
This pilot uses the REAL System y-Series, which includes a tablet, ahead-mounted display, sensors, operating software and a library of clinically based activities to deliver care. This will be the VR platform of use. Additionally, this collaboration will help VHA OHIL adopt and adapt new technologies which enable remote therapeutic rehabilitation, remote therapeutic monitoring and remote patient management to enable access to care, asynchronous patient-provider interactions and greater remote patient monitoring. The innovation is cost effective but does not compromise the efficacy of the care. See more
This pilot uses the REAL System y-Series, which includes a tablet, ahead-mounted display, sensors, operating software and a library ... The collaboration between Penumbra, Inc. and VA Immersive bridges the gap between Veterans and access to effective rehabilitative medicine solutions. It offers 24/7 access to VR experiences designed specifically for the user.
This pilot uses the REAL System y-Series, which includes a tablet, ahead-mounted display, sensors, operating software and a library of clinically based activities to deliver care. This will be the VR platform of use. Additionally, this collaboration will help VHA OHIL adopt and adapt new technologies which enable remote therapeutic rehabilitation, remote therapeutic monitoring and remote patient management to enable access to care, asynchronous patient-provider interactions and greater remote patient monitoring. The innovation is cost effective but does not compromise the efficacy of the care. See more
Results
This pilot is emerging, and results will be updated as data is collected.
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Does not include Clinical Resource Hubs (CRH)
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About
Origin story
In late 2018, a Veteran attended a regional conference where he took part in a presentation on VR and its potential benefits to Veteran health care. Upon his return to the VA Central Iowa Health Care System, this Veteran found that David McAdon, a physical therapy assistant, and his team were tasked with building a VR program for Veterans.
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In late 2018, a Veteran attended a regional conference where he took part in a presentation on VR and its potential benefits to Veteran health care. Upon his return to the VA Central Iowa Health Care System, this Veteran found that David McAdon, a physical therapy assistant, and his team were tasked with building a VR program for Veterans.
At the VA Central Iowa Health Care System, the team treated Veterans using VR and had many successes with Veterans that struggled with anxiety, depression, pain, physical and functional limitations and balance deficits. VR has helped provide Veterans with a new avenue to help decrease limitations and improve their quality of life.
The landscape of VR is changing quickly so hours of research and demonstrations have been done to find the right equipment and experiences for Veterans. VA Central Iowa invested time to find the right VR system and over the last two years, the team developed this VR program into what it is today.
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