Virtual reality holds the potential to both improve and lower the cost of how physicians treat chronic pain while also reducing America’s dependence on pharmacological interventions, according to AppliedVR executives. (AppliedVR)

AppliedVR Taps Curebase to run At-Home Clinical Trials Testing VR for Pain Treatment

After clearing a major regulatory hurdle to use its virtual reality treatment for chronic pain, AppliedVR is now planning to run multiple VR therapy clinical trials from patients’ homes.

Curebase, a company that provides decentralized clinical trials software, signed a one-year partnership with AppliedVR to test its VR-based digital therapeutics across five studies.

AppliedVR’s platform has been used by more than 30,000 patients in more than 240 of the top health systems globally.