ARTICLE SUMMARY:
For decades, morphine derivatives and opioids have been used to treat chronic pain, but they can be habit-forming and dangerous. Karuna Labs' Virtual Embodiment Training uses virtual reality as the vehicle and neuroplasticity as the mechanism to retrain patients' brains into feeling less pain with a series of imagery-enhanced exercises.
Jon Weinberg, COO of Karuna Labs Inc., says that chronic pain is the greatest source of disability in the world, constituting an economic impact of two-thirds of a trillion dollars annually in the US alone.
