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Published on in Vol 14 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/77713, first published .
Virtual Reality–Based Pain Modulation in Subacute Musculoskeletal Injury: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study of Neural and Behavioral Correlates

Virtual Reality–Based Pain Modulation in Subacute Musculoskeletal Injury: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study of Neural and Behavioral Correlates

Virtual Reality–Based Pain Modulation in Subacute Musculoskeletal Injury: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study of Neural and Behavioral Correlates

Ryan Andrew Mace   1, 2, 3 , PhD ;   Ziyan Wu   1, 2, 3 , PhD ;   Christine B Sieberg   1, 2, 3, 4 , PhD ;   Keerthana Deepti Karunakaran   5 , PhD ;   Ke Peng   6 , PhD, MSc ;   David Borsook   2, 3, 7 , MD, PhD

1 Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

2 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

3 Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

4 Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

5 Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States

6 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

7 Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

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  • Ryan Andrew Mace, PhD
  • Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
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