A Japanese group has reported a virtual reality therapy for autistic children.

Virtual reality therapy has been successfully used to help people with:

Virtual reality therapy provides realistic, computer-based simulations of troublesome situations.

Virtual Reality Therapy simulates the real thing with computer-generated three-dimensional images and sound.

Virtual Reality Therapy has also proven to be effective in rehabilitation of lesion patients suffering from neglect.

During virtual reality therapy, you can confront a feared object or situation or traumatic event while staying in a safe and comfortable place.

Virtual reality therapy is the use of computer-produced situations to make you believe and feel as though you are actually in a different place and situation.

Virtual reality therapy deals with fear of heights, fear of flying, and a variety of other anxiety disorders.

Dr. Sieburg believes the group could be the prototype for a panoply of virtual reality therapies available someday on the Internet.

"We hoped to facilitate the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy by combining DCS with virtual reality therapy in humans," says Davis.

Virtual reality therapy can be very costly so therapists are still awaiting results of controlled trials for VR treatment to see which applications show the best results.

Another study examined the effectiveness of Virtual Reality Therapy in treating military combat personnel recently returning from the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wiederhold, B. K. Virtual Reality Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Advances in Evaluation and Treatment.

The Department of Veterans' Affairs is conducting research programs to treat Veterans with PTSD, including using long-term exposure therapy and virtual reality therapy.

These results show promising effects and help to validate Virtual Reality Therapy as an efficacious mode of therapy for the treatment of PTSD.

Though these tests have provided relatively accurate diagnostic results, advances in Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT) have proven these tests to not be completely thorough.

There are a number of other methods that may be used in addition to medications to reduce procedural pain and anxiety including: virtual reality therapy, hypnosis, and behavioral approaches such as distraction techniques.

Rehabilitation techniques that have evidence to suggest cortical reorganization as the mechanism of change include Constraint-induced movement therapy, functional electrical stimulation, treadmill training with body weight support, and virtual reality therapy.

VIRTUAL REALITY THERAPY - In this method, you do not even have to set foot in an airplane or train or whatever your fearful situation may be.

Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT) uses specially programmed computers, visual immersion devices and artificially created environments to give the patient a simulated experience that can be used to diagnose and treat psychological conditions that cause patients difficulty.

Furthermore, Dr. B.K. Wiederhold, a psychiatrist investigating virtual reality therapy as a possible method of therapy for anxiety disorders, goes on to provide data that although prevalent in both men and women, 75% to 90% of patients reporting specific phobias of the animal subtype are women.

However, in his book, Virtual Reality Therapy for Anxiety Disorders, Dr. Wiederhold questions the effectiveness of systematic desensitization as the intensity of the perceived threat is reliant on the patient's imagination and could therefore produce a false response in regards to the patient's level of anxiety.

Using a technology that allows far-flung people to meet via the Internet and play games like Dungeons and Dragons together, Dr. Hans Sieburg, a psychiatrist and mathematician at the University of California at San Diego has established a virtual reality therapy group for men who have erectile difficulties.