Phase 2: measuring whether physically touching real water makes virtual reality more effective at reducing pain: single thermode (foot) pain during two different VR conditions
During Phase 2, each participant received two separate single thermode stimuli (one at a time) to their “foot only” at the same baseline temperature used in Phase 1 (“VR with no real water” during one thermal stimulus, and “VR + real water” during the other single foot stimulus, with treatment order randomized using random number sequences from 