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Discover the transformative impact of VR on healthcare through our insightful blogs.

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Understanding the New 0770T CPT Code

Medical billing and reimbursement are critical components of the healthcare industry. Without proper medical billing, healthcare providers would not receive reimbursement for their services. Let's discuss the new CPT code 0770T and its significance in medical billing and reimbursement when using VR devices such as the XR Therapy System from Neuro Rehab VR.

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Leveraging Virtual Reality Can Help Alleviate Medical Staffing Shortages

As providers strive to improve the patient and therapist experience, they should consider investing in virtual reality therapy technology. Virtual reality therapy, such as the XR Therapy System by Neuro Rehab VR has the potential to address multiple challenges that hospitals face, including increasing therapist retention, increasing productivity, providing improved functional outcomes, and decreasing readmissions—all of which decrease hospital costs

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Breaking The Meta: How Rehab Centered VR Trumps Entertainment-Based Devices.

Entertainment-Based VR is typically for gaming, watching media, and connecting with friends. The Meta Quest 2 is the perfect example of what this type of VR looks like. It is shiny, loud, proud, and full of explosive experiences that aim to keep you on the tips of your toes or pull your heartstrings until you achieve an emotional response as if what you had experienced was truly real. That is what makes VR such an incredible tool; the technology’s ability to simulate things that some people may never get to part in during their lifetime. But again, with so many VR experiences out there, not all are appropriate for every occasion, like choosing high heels for hiking.

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Neuro Rehab VR Selected as a 2022 National Innovation Challenge Awardee for Readiness

Neuro Rehab VR was selected from a field of over 800 applicants and 18 finalists to win the National Innovation Challenge Award for Readiness at the 2022 Defense TechConnect Innovation and Summit Expo held near Washington, D.C. The prize, given to the top 5 companies in the Readiness category, includes $10,000 in non-dilutive funding, an invitation to a business consortium to work with leaders from federal agencies and providers and access to more than $50 billion in prototype-level contracting authority for government customers.

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Q & A With a Practicing Director of Rehabilitation Using the XR Therapy System

We had the privilege of speaking with James Edwards, Director of Rehabilitation at St Bernards Villa, who has been using the XR Therapy System across a myriad of patients and treatment profiles for the last 6 months providing almost 500 VR therapy exercises to patients. Mr. Edwards has been practicing as a Physical Therapist for thirteen years, is board certified in Geriatrics and Vestibular Rehabilitation and has served as the Director of Rehabilitation at St. Bernards Villa for the last seven years. He is also certified in Power Moves and Lee Silverman Voice Techniques (LSVT) which are both heavily utilized in Parkinson’s Disease treatment protocols. With all of these credentials and his current hands on experience, we were pleased to have the opportunity to ask Mr. Edwards some questions and share his experiences with the XR Therapy System.

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Enhancing The Patient Experience With VR

In therapy, a huge pain point that I have always heard, especially for patients who have gone through the cycle more than once, is waning motivation. On the opposite side of things, spicing up therapy can be an equally difficult thing for the therapist. Most patient goals are presented as cut and dry, but does our pursuit of the goals have to be?

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APTA Recognizes Virtual Reality As A Therapeutic Intervention

The American Physical Therapy Association has added a new treating tool to their intervention page further proving it’s efficacy and demonstrating it is more than just the next trend.

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Can VR Effectively Treat Patients With PTSD and Anxiety Disorders?

Virtual Reality is a vast Landscape.; anything can be created within virtual reality to simulate, engage, and entertain the user. The only limiting factor is the designer's imagination. One particular use case showing the flexibility of virtual reality that may not be known is PTSD and Anxiety Disorders.

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What Happens in The Brain During Virtual Reality

Have you ever found yourself preparing for a possible impact in stop and go traffic, an obvious jump scare in a horror movie, or greeting a loved one during a routine visit? This “mind/body preparation” is a brain mechanism called embodied simulation.

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