Monitoring of Cerebral Activity during Suppression of Pain Sensations Using Virtual Reality Technology

An approach to the creation of technical means for suppressing patients' pain is proposed. This approach is based on the use of virtual reality technology to redirect the patient's attention from the sensation of pain to the state of virtual involvement. The proposed approach, which includes monitoring of the parameters of brain activity signals during application of rehabilitation measures using virtual reality technologies, is based on analysis of electroencephalographic data and selection of an appropriate virtual environment with the required parameters. The simulation was carried out in the MATLAB mathematical programming environment using the Simulink package.