NCT07192822

Magic Bowl Virtual Reality Analgesia

Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Reduce Brief Pain During Thermal Heat Stimuli

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Washington · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Participants will rate how much pain they experience during several brief thermal stimulations at painful but tolerable temperatures participants pre-approve. During some of the stimuli participants will be in virtual reality, and during some stimuli participants will not be in VR. Sometimes participants will receive two brief stimuli at the same time.

Detailed description

During VR, participants will put their cyberhand into a bowl of animated water and will place virtual objects in the bowl and stir the virtual water. Participants will also receive several brief thermal heat stimulations at a temperature of their choice (sometimes one stimulus, sometimes two simultaneous stimuli). During some of the stimuli participants will be in virtual reality, and some stimuli will not be in VR.

Conditions

• Pain Acute

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Virtual Reality distraction	Participants goes into an immersive virtual reality during a brief painful stimulus
BEHAVIORAL	No Virtual Reality	Participant receives a brief thermal stimulus during no treatment
BEHAVIORAL	One brief pain stimulus	patient receives one brief pain stimulus with no simultaneous second stimulus
BEHAVIORAL	Two simultaneous brief thermal stimuli	Participants receive two brief thermal stimuli at the same time

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-18
• Primary completion: 2025-05-29
• Completion: 2025-05-29
• First posted: 2025-09-25
• Last updated: 2026-01-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States