XRHealth and Reducept Offer Patients Virtual Reality Therapy for Pain Management

VR Technology Delivers Evidence-based Brain Training Exercises at Scale to Help Relieve Chronic Pain without Drugs

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Jul 26, 2021, 07:00 ET

BOSTON, July 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- XRHealth, the leader in extended reality and therapeutic applications, announced today that they are working with Reducept to expand their offering to patients for virtual reality therapy for pain management. The virtual reality technology provides exercises that train people suffering from chronic pain on how to gain control over pain, potentially reducing the need for medication.

The XRHealth and Reducept partnership was designed for individuals experiencing ongoing chronic pain. The Reducept VR Game trains the users' brain to create its own pain medication via digital psychological pain treatment. The pain management app provides immersive visual journeys and education through a gamified narrative. The app also offers targeted behavioral experiments, and applies evidence-based techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy through 3D virtualization of the body.

The CDC reports that over 20% of adult Americans suffer from chronic pain and 7.4% experience high impact chronic pain. The XRHealth and Reducept collaboration aims to help many people regain control of their lives. Reducept trains the brain to deal with pain differently by combining the scientific insights on pain education, psychology and digital therapy, and teaches users about pain, how it affects their body and gives practical tools to apply in everyday life. Reducept is an award-winning software, having won the United Nations World Summit Award, Accenture Healthtech Innovation Challenge Award 2019, the International Serious Play Awards 2019 and Game Bakery Awards: Best Serious Game 2020. Today, Reducept has helped over 2500 patients learn more about their pain and get better control over their lives.

"We would like to provide people in pain with enjoyable, satisfying and sustainable pain treatment. The great thing about Reducept is that it combines several patient-focused techniques clinically proven to reduce the negative impact of pain on quality of life. We are excited to join XRHealth to make Reducept treatment accessible on their platform," says Margryt Fennema, CEO of Reducept.

XRHealth provides remote care to patients globally with a variety of conditions, including pain management, and is covered by most major health insurance companies as well as Medicare. One of the unique features that VR therapy provides is that users can utilize therapy from the comfort of their home while data and healthcare progress is shared with their doctors in real-time so that medical providers can adjust therapy, as needed.

"Chronic pain can often be debilitating for people and the medication required to control the pain can be both addictive and have unpleasant side effects for patients," says Eran Orr, CEO of XRHealth. "Virtual reality can provide a realistic and immersive experience for users to train their brain to gain control over their body and produce their own medication, potentially eliminating dependency on drugs while providing the much necessary alleviation from the pain. Users feel empowered by the new-found control over their mind and the influence it has on their body. "

About XRHealth

XRHealth operates state-of-the-art therapeutic care Virtual Clinics, utilizing proprietary FDA and CE registered medical Extended Reality (XR) technology (virtual and augmented reality). XRHealth integrates immersive XR technology, licensed clinicians, and advanced data analytics on one platform, providing a comprehensive therapeutic care solution for patients to receive treatment from the comfort of their home. The company offers a variety of patent-pending solutions from rehabilitation services to cognitive assessment and training to pain management. XRHealth works with several world-renowned U.S. healthcare providers, hospitals and rehabilitation centers. Founded in 2016, XRHealth is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and it's R&D center is located in Tel-Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit https://www.xr.health/.

About Reducept

Reducept is a Dutch-born eHealth scale-up founded by Margryt Fennema and Louis Zantema in 2018, based in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Reducept is committed to scaling digital therapeutics in medical treatment to ensure a non-invasive, drug free patient experience and cost-effective results. It's achieved via the Reducept Method, a CE accredited digital therapeutics solution that gives healthcare professionals the tools and expertise to boost their chronic pain treatment. The Reducept Method is currently offered by over 200 official providers in the Netherlands among which are physiotherapist practices, private pain clinics, pain management centers and rehabilitation centers. Reducept VR Game is a core element of the Reducept Method, it translates evidence-based brain-training techniques and pain education into an immersive game-based training. For more information, visit https://www.reducept.com/.

Contact: DeeDee Rudenstein, (267) 521-9654, [email protected]

SOURCE XRHealth