Effects of Virtual Reality-Based Interventions on Neuropathic Pain in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Chang Liu, Yamei Liu · 2026
Read Effects of Virtual Reality-Based Interventions on Neuropathic Pain in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Chang Liu, Yamei Liu (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13592339.txt.
Description
Chang Liu and Yamei Liu pooled trials in 2026 on whether virtual reality eases nerve pain after spinal cord injury. Such pain is common and hard to treat, and headset worlds offer a drug-free lever. The pair searched six databases for randomized trials in adults with injury-linked nerve pain. Ten trials with 317 people fed twelve comparisons, pooled with a random-effects model.
Reality-based care cut pain by a moderate margin against controls. Dropping any one trial barely moved the result. No subgroup, by design, age, time since injury, or VR style, split the effect. Evidence certainty rated moderate. The pair calls the benefit probable and asks for bigger, longer trials to size its staying power.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chang Liu, Yamei Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 79 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |