Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza - MIGLOBAL: Tools and Virtual Techniques

Virtual Reality as Tool for Medicine

Nowadays, the field of medicine is leading its advances, researchers, and studies to virtual simulation. For this reason, MIGLOBAL tells y about this everything you need to know about this topic.

Video games are not the only way to live virtual experiences. Nowadays, the field of medicine is leading its advances, researchers, and studies to virtual simulation. All these new technological improvements are being studied and practiced by MIGLOBAL, a company dedicated to the development of hospital projects and medicine training. For this reason, MIGLOBAL presents interesting information about these great services and its applications to medicine.

The Virtual Simulation to Joints Treatment

Joints such as the hips, knees, wrists and ankles are some of the main moving parts of the human body. They receive a lot of pressure and stress and are exposed to a number of problems that can cause serious consequences. Among these problems and conditions, we can find the osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease that attacks the cartilage and causes severe pain in the patient.

Osteoarthritis is a chronic condition that usually strikes older people, with a rate of up to 60% of adults age 70 and up to 90% of over 80 mostly female, and may have stiffness and pain in the affected area, but up to 40% of sufferers do not experience any symptoms.

Another good example of the advance made regarding virtual interventions is the total ankle replacement which has proven to be a good option for those with terminal stages of the disease in this part of the body; meanwhile, it has been determined that injections with certain proteins present in the platelets can accelerate tissue regeneration.

Medicine advances in the fight against osteoarthritis have given new hope for those who suffer its effects. We can mention the Chondroitin sulfate treatment, which exceeds the relief provided by painkillers, reducing its advance and improves mobility

Finally, one last reference about the success of virtual interventions: the technology of the Arthroscopic Initiation Course in shoulder and knee with Virtual Simulation. This is one of the most successful adverts in medicine since it has meant the union of the highest technology of virtual simulators with the latest knowledge in the area of treatment of joint problems.

-Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza