Healthy Mind provides a prescription virtual reality (VR) therapeutic platform to help manage pain and anxiety in medical settings. The company’s certified software is classified as a medical device and is used in hospitals to immerse patients in calming interactive VR environments during procedures or recovery, thereby reducing their perceived pain and distress.

Patients wear a VR headset that transports them to carefully designed 3D worlds – for example, a peaceful beach or forest – accompanied by guided narration and music. These immersive scenarios are created based on neuroscience principles to engage the patient’s attention and trigger relaxation responses (lowering heart rate, modulating pain pathways). Healthy Mind’s software is often used during painful procedures (like wound dressing changes or minor surgeries) or in post-operative care. It is clinically validated and can be tailored to patient needs (e.g. pediatric-friendly scenes for children). By providing a fully engaging audiovisual experience, the VR effectively distracts the brain from pain signals and anxiety. Some programs also incorporate biofeedback or simple interactive games to enhance efficacy.

Hospitals use Healthy Mind’s VR for acute pain control – for instance, burn units have patients use VR during dressing changes to significantly reduce pain without extra opioids. It’s also used in labor wards, oncology (for chemotherapy anxiety), and pediatrics to keep children calm during injections or scans. Beyond procedures, it can support chronic pain rehabilitation and mental health, offering home-based VR therapy for stress reduction or phobia exposure therapy. By replacing or augmenting drugs with a digital therapy, Healthy Mind improves patient comfort and outcomes. Notably, it has been deployed in emergency departments (e.g. to calm injured children) and showed that such immersive digital therapies can measurably lower pain scores and anxiety levels. This exemplifies how AR/VR combined with clinical insight can create a powerful neuromodulatory effect (through distraction and relaxation) in healthcare.