Test the C2Care digital tool for free and discover how it can support your teams on a daily basis.
Create a C2Care account to access a scene integrating the digital tool and explore the training modules: aggression management, pain management, autism spectrum disorder, addictive disorders and disorientation of the elderly.
Training healthcare teams in complex situations, aggressive patient, poorly assessed pain, disorientation of an elderly person, often involves waiting for them to arise in the field. Reproducing these situations in a controlled manner during training is not always possible.
Some depend on an unpredictable context or the real presence of a patient in difficulty, while their intensity and progression remain difficult for a trainer to adjust.
Virtual reality makes it possible to recreate these clinical situations directly in training, in a controlled and reproducible environment for each learner.
The C2Care environments make it possible to put the learner face to face with situations encountered in the field: a hospital room with an aggressive patient, a painful patient to be assessed, or even the sensory perception of a child with an autism spectrum disorder.
The trainer chooses the scene adapted to the educational objectives and can change the scenario during the immersion, to work on professional posture and stress management in the face of these situations.
These scenarios can be repeated and adjusted from one session to another, in order to reinforce the transfer of skills to real practice, particularly on the assessment of pain or the management of disorientation in the elderly.
VRET
The practitioner seats the patient on a swivel chair and fits them with the virtual reality headset
Using the control interface, the practitioner selects the environment suited to the session's goals and starts the exposure.
During immersion, the practitioner supports the patient using a visual feed and can adjust the exposure scene in real time
Environments
Each environment reproduces a clinical situation encountered in the field, with the support of an expert trainer.
Simulation of a verbally and gesturally aggressive patient in a hospital room, with evolving scenarios to work on professional posture and stress management.
Interactive situation with a patient in pain, to work on assessing pain and checking prescriptions.
The learner takes the place of an autistic child to understand the disruptive elements of his environment as he perceives them.
Raising awareness of spatio-temporal disorientation in the elderly, through the care of disoriented patients.
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Solène Montègue
Neuropsychiatrist
The developments C2Care is currently integrating into the interface are very promising and meet the established therapeutic objectives [...]: offering tailored exercises that can be adapted to levels of dependency, cognitive disorders, and patients' real-time responses.
Samia Lahya
Psychiatrist
With the acquisition of new equipment [...] and updates to the C2Care programs, its use has expanded even further: OCD, phobias, addictions, anxiety disorders, depression, and PTSD. Ten years later, it is no longer merely a curiosity, but a genuine therapeutic tool that is stimulating, innovative, and effective.
Sabrina Gineau
Psychologist
I incorporate this technology into brief therapies lasting two to four months, with one session per week. I begin with relaxation techniques and, when patients are ready, we proceed. It makes it much easier to expose people to these situations.
Noël Schepers
Psychologist
Virtual reality can enrich and personalize treatment, facilitate patient-therapist collaboration in developing the treatment plan, and add a playful dimension. The possibilities for development and application are immense and extend to every area of psychology and psychotherapy.
MĂ©lanie Boucherot
Psychologist
The value of this technology [C2Care] lies in offering new possibilities for therapeutic support and expanding the range of tools available to healthcare professionals.
François Maltese
Psychologist
For several months, we have been using virtual reality in habituation therapies. Before the procedure, patients are progressively and immersively exposed to their future medical environment and psychologically prepared to accept it.
Dre Marie-Claude Roberge
Doctor of Psychology
Since 2022, we have been using virtual reality therapy with the C2Care platform to simulate exposure to aversive stimuli and triggers that cause anxiety. Exposure therapy is used to treat specific phobias, including fear of heights, enclosed spaces, flying, dogs, emetophobia, and many others.
Dr Laure Du Pouget
Urologist
Using a virtual reality headset for self-hypnosis during prostate biopsies creates a calm atmosphere for a procedure that can sometimes be uncomfortable, even with effective local anesthesia...
Delphine Py
Psychologist
Thank you to C2Care for providing innovative virtual reality solutions to support CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)! A major step forward in making exposure exercises easier and helping our patients overcome their phobias.
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Depending on your patients' needs, other areas may also be relevant to explore. Discover the different environments available in C2Care.
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FAQ
Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions about the use of virtual reality in health training.
C2Care has been testing its virtual reality software in hospitals since 2016. The solution now offers more than 250 virtual environments and equips more than 1,000 practitioners in nearly 50 countries.
The patient wears a virtual reality headset and operates in an immersive environment chosen by the practitioner. Graduated exposure allows the intensity of anxiety-provoking stimuli to be gradually adjusted, under the control of the practitioner who manages the session from a dedicated platform.
A virtual environment is an immersive scene reproducing a real situation (street, transport, crowd, airport) in which the patient can be exposed in a controlled manner. C2Care offers over 250 environments covering anxiety disorders, phobias and addictions.
Virtual reality is not presented as dangerous, but some patients may experience cybersickness, similar to motion sickness. This phenomenon affects around 10% of users according to C2Care data.
Some users may experience nausea, a symptom of cybersickness related to immersion in virtual reality. This phenomenon affects around 10% of people according to C2Care data and remains variable from one patient to another.
Therapeutic virtual reality is aimed at practitioners: psychologists, psychiatrists and occupational therapists. It is used in private practices as well as in health establishments (CHU, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, follow-up care and rehabilitation structures).
Virtual reality exposure therapy is aimed at patients suffering from anxiety disorders, phobias, addictions or cognitive disorders. Practitioners also use it in geriatric psychiatry, particularly for the care of disoriented elderly people.
