{"id":70767,"date":"2017-07-09T16:03:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T23:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/virtual-reality-goggles-that-could-help-facial-paralysis-patients"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:00:12","slug":"virtual-reality-goggles-that-could-help-facial-paralysis-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/virtual-reality-goggles-that-could-help-facial-paralysis-patients","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality goggles that could help facial paralysis patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virtual-reality-goggles-that-could-help-facial-paralysis-patients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facial paralysis suffered by thousands of Britons is being treated by pioneering NHS specialists with virtual-reality computer game-style technology.<\/p>\n<p>The therapy could be used to help patients who find it too traumatic to look at their own \u2018changed\u2019 reflections after the paralysis.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual-reality (VR) goggles encourage sufferers to carry out the regular facial exercises needed to regain muscle function \u2013 with the wearer watching an avatar\u2019s face doing the exercises rather than their own.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-4678084\/VR-goggles-help-facial-paralysis-patients.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-4678084\/VR-goggles...ients.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facial paralysis suffered by thousands of Britons is being treated by pioneering NHS specialists with virtual-reality computer game-style technology. The therapy could be used to help patients who find it too traumatic to look at their own \u2018changed\u2019 reflections after the paralysis. The virtual-reality (VR) goggles encourage sufferers to carry out the regular facial exercises [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70791,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767\/revisions\/70791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}