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Amanda Greene lives with pain. If I don't have nerve pain, I might have joint pain. If I'm not having joint pain, I might have headaches.
安曼大·格林遭受疼痛折磨，如果我没有神经疼，我或许会关节疼，如果关节不痛，或者会头疼。
The unrelenting pain is a symptom of lupus, an autoimmune disease where a patient's immune system attacks the body.
持续疼痛是狼疮的症状，它是一种自身免疫系统疾病，患者的免疫系统会攻击身体。
She participated in a study to see how VR can help with pain.
她参加了一项研究，看看虚拟现实是否可以缓解疼痛。
It worked. It works for me. VR creates a distraction for her pain and the content teaches her breathing techniques that also helps.
对我管用，虚拟现实让她从疼痛中转移，眼镜中的内容教授她有用的呼吸技巧。
Brennan Spiegel, a gastroenterologist at Cedars-Sinai says VR is more than just distraction.
布伦南·斯皮格尔是西达赛奈的胃肠病学家，他称虚拟现实不仅仅是转移注意力。
He heads the hospital's virtual reality program. Abdominal pain, discomfort GI symptoms, in some cases, are related to mental state.
他带头领导医院的虚拟现实项目，腹部疼痛，胃肠不适症状，许多情况与精神有关。
The brain and the gut are constantly communicating. Something like virtual reality actually can
大脑和内脏一直在交流，像虚拟现实这类事物
intercede in the brain-gut axis and sort of rewire the neurocircuitry in a way that helps to reduce abdominal pain
可以调和肠脑轴，可以说重新对神经回路布线，一定程度上减轻腹部疼。
Virtual reality can reduce pain, can reduce blood pressure
虚拟现实可以减轻疼痛，可以降低血压，
and now we're looking to see can it do really important things like reduce the need for opioids.
我们现在在看，它是否可以减轻对阿片类药物的依赖。
But good VR also be addictive. We have not seen abuse amongst our patients who are using it for therapeutic purposes.
但就算虚拟现实再好也会上瘾，我们没有在病患上看到滥用问题，他们使用只是为了治疗。
Spiegel is now taking virtual reality outside the hospital to partner clinics such as Attune Health
斯皮格尔如今将虚拟现实带到了医院外，与像“协和健康”等诊所合作，
where many of the patients suffer from joint pain.
那里有许多患者关节疼痛。
We're not just using it as a distraction method but we are trying to train our patients in deep breathing and biofeedback.
我们不仅仅是转移注意力，我们正在训练病患，教他们深呼吸和生物反馈。
The company appliedVR is developing content to have a VR pharmacy.
appliedVR公司正在研发内容，从而实现虚拟现实药店。
You need a wide variety of content because you have a wide variety of people in health care.
你需要各种内容，因为医院里有各种各样的病人。
You have every from you know infancy to geriatrics.
比如从婴儿期到老年病学。
The aim is for patients to learn in virtual reality how to use their minds to manage pain and reproduce these skills in the real world.
目的是让患者在虚拟现实中学会如何利用大脑缓解疼痛，重新增加在现实生活中的技巧。
Elizabeth Lee VOA news Los Angeles
VOA新闻，伊丽莎白·李洛杉矶报道。
