Contraindications


Virtual Reality Therapy should not be used on people sensitive to video games or with a history of epileptic seizures.26


Patients diagnosed with any of the following conditions are contraindicated for VRT.

  • A skin infection or broken skin on the head or face
  • An infectious disease
  • Severe motion sickness
  • Extreme vision or hearing impairment
  • Agitated depression
  • Psychotic disease
  • Paranoid disease
  • Unstable dissociative disorder
  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Acute brain syndrome
  • Chronic brain syndrome
  • Epilepsy
  • Schizophrenia
  • Dementia
  • Delirium
  • Extreme vertigo