Hospital uses videogame to help burn victims

Have you ever noticed how when something is hurting you, you can put your attention on something else to help feel less pain or to seemingly forget all about it? This reasoning is what drove a hospital in Illinois (USA) to try an innovative system that helps in the recovery of patients suffering from burns.

The Loyola University Hospital, in Maywood, Ill. (USA), is employing a virtual reality system called SnowWorld that helps in immersing the patient in a snowy landscape complete with snowmen, chilly rivers and…