A first-of-its-kind study has provided new evidence that wearing a virtual reality headset during labor can reduce pain levels and heart rates for moms.
including depression and anxiety as well as acute and chronic pain.
Wong studied 40 first-time moms for the trial, checking their vitals and pain levels as they used the VR headset for up to 30 minutes during the labor process, three times the length of use examined in a previous study. There are only a very small handful of hospitals in the U.S. known to offer VR to women, according to Wong.
In October, Martucci gave birth to her third child, another daughter whom she and her husband Michael named Catherine. "Labor is a very specific pain and it's different than other areas of hospital treatment because it can last for hours," said David Frey, a board-certified anesthesiologist and one of the study's co-authors."VR affects the brain and response in different ways than classic types of distraction because it's more immersive and therefore takes up more attentional resources.
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