Immersive virtual reality in Palliative Care: prospects for Total Rehabilitation

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Keywords:

Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy, Palliative Care, Rehabilitation

Abstract

Introduction: Virtual Reality presents itself as a promising tool for improving health technologies and enhancing interventions to improve the functionality and quality of life of patients and families facing progressive diseases and/or lifethreatening conditions. Objective: This essay discusses the promising role of Immersive Virtual Reality in Palliative Care rehabilitation and proposes the concept of Total Rehabilitation as a possibility to expand the current conception of rehabilitation. Method: We present reflections based on the Total Pain theory, typical of Palliative Care, and the inclusion of New Technologies in health, especially in the field of rehabilitation, through documents based on the reflexive line that the authors intend to submit for consideration and public debate. Results: The role of Immersive Virtual Reality in health interventions is important and promising, as well as the conceptual proposal for expanding the concept and understanding of Rehabilitation, coining the term Total Rehabilitation. In addition, the reflective process of debate on therapeutic possibilities and their innovations was fostered. Conclusion: From Total Rehabilitation, innovations related to health care, whether technological and/or clinical practices, can be improved and made available through interventions in physical and/or virtual environments, having global functionality and human dignity as premises for rehabilitation processes, with actions that involve the physical, social, psychological and spiritual dimensions, as presented by the concept of Total Pain.

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Breno Augusto Bormann de Souza Filho, Universidade de Pernambuco/Professor Auxiliar da Escola Superior de Educação Física

Bacharel em Educação Física - ASCES. Pós-graduado em Reabilitação Cardiopulmonar e Metabólica - UPE-ESEF. Residência Multiprofissional em Saúde do Idoso - IMIP. Pós-graduado em Oncologia Multidisciplinar - FPS/IMIP. Pós-graduado em Neurociências, Esporte e Atividade Física - UFRJ. Mestrado Profissional em Cuidados Paliativos - IMIP. Aperfeiçoamento em Cuidados Paliativos - Instituto Paliar. Técnico de Para atletismo nível 3 credenciado pelo Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro. Membro pesquisador da Academia Paralímpica Brasileira/Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro - APB/CPB. Doutor em Epidemiologia em Saúde Pública pela Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública da FioCruz/RJ. Membro pesquisador do Grupo de Pesquisa e Núcleo de Estudos em Cuidados Intermediários e Redes de Atenção à Saúde na linha de Cuidados Paliativos e os Cuidados Intermediários, vinculado ao CNPQ (dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/5761100916911625).

Érika Fernandes Tritany, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Instituto de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva

Sanitarista (IESC/UFRJ). Especialista em Gestão de Redes de Atenção à Saúde (ENSP/Fiocruz) e Residente multiprofissional em Saúde Coletiva (IESC/UFRJ). Mestre em Saúde Coletiva pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IESC/UFRJ) e integrante pesquisadora do Núcleo de Estudos em Cuidados Intermediários e Redes de Atenção à Saúde nas linhas de pesquisa Cuidados Intermediários e Atenção Básica; e Cuidados Paliativos (dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/5761100916911625).

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2022-02-19

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Souza Filho, B. A. B. de, & Tritany, Érika F. (2022). Immersive virtual reality in Palliative Care: prospects for Total Rehabilitation. Brazilian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 30, e3024. Retrieved from https://cadernosdeterapiaocupacional.ufscar.br/index.php/cadernos/article/view/3024

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Vol. 30 (2022)

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Article of Reflection or Essay

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