How Mixed Reality Could Transform The Healing Process By Helping People Understand Their Own Bodies

You get injured and undergo a medical procedure to help. Afterwards, you're usually given a set of instructions, perhaps some prescription medication and then sent on your way. The problem is, the average person doesn't really understand what's happening in their body and what the best methods might be to heal. Now mixed reality, in the form of headsets and VR technology, might be able to help.

One writer decided to use a new medical VR app released for the Playstation gaming system to better understand the nature of his own back injury. By delving into an immersive 3D model of the human spine, he could see what his herniated disc had caused and how certain exercises might help him to recover faster. He suggests that this "visual knowledge" not only helps him to target his rehabilitation exercises more efficiently, but also get motivated to do them in the first place.