Monthly Insights
Augmented Reality in Healthcare Clinical Practices
March 2025 – AR Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Researchers led by psychiatrist Arash Javanbakht announced plans for a clinical trial using augmented reality exposure therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder the-scientist.com.
April 2025 – AR Vein Location with Vivolight: Vein Finder digitally displays a real-time map of veins on the skin, assisting medical staff in increasing the operator's perspective during puncture or blood drawing.
April 2025 – AR for Stress Management (CHI 2025): A Carnegie Mellon University team presented a project at the CHI 2025 conference demonstrating how VR/AR can simulate everyday stressful situations (public speaking, crowded events, conflict) to let people practice coping strategies in realistic settings cmu.educmu.edu.
May 2025 – AR in Neurorehabilitation: New findings highlighted augmented reality’s value in neurological therapy. For example, a team at Cleveland Clinic reported that in Phase II trials, Parkinson’s disease patients who trained with an AR-guided dual-task platform achieved comparable improvements in gait and walking parameters as those in traditional therapy the-scientist.com.
Research Article: An augmented reality dual-task intervention improves postural stability in individuals with Parkinson’s disease - ScienceDirect
Augmented Reality in Medical Practices and Surgery
March 2025 – Improved Brain Tumor Surgery Outcomes: A study published in Frontiers in Oncology showed that using mixed/augmented reality guidance in glioblastoma surgery significantly improved resection quality. In a Geneva hospital series, the MR-guided group had much smaller residual tumor volumes and higher gross total resection rates, leading to longer median progression-free survival (147 vs. 100 days) without increasing neurological deficits frontiersin.org.
April 2025 – FDA Clearance of AR Surgical Platform:Proprio, a Seattle-based surgical technology startup, received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Paradigm system – billed as the world’s first AI-driven AR surgical guidance platform orthofeed.com.
Surgical AR Platform from Proprio: Proprio - Vision for the future of surgery
May 2025 – AR Expands in Orthopedic Surgery: Following a late-April FDA clearance, France-based Pixee Medical prepared to launch “Knee+ NexSight” in the U.S., an augmented reality system for total knee arthroplasty tailored to ambulatory surgery centers. The AR headset overlays guiding templates onto the operative field, offering “robotic-like precision” in implant alignment without the cost or complexity of robots orthofeed.com.
Pixee Medical:Pixee Medical - A new vision for orthopedic surgery
Augmented Reality in Dental Practices and Surgery
March 2025 – AR Navigated Dental Implants: Researchers in Austria and Germany introduced a low-cost AR solution for dental implant surgery using just a smartphone. In a study published in Clinical and Experimental Dental Research (Feb 2025), they calibrated a phone’s camera to overlay a 3D implant plan onto a patient’s jaw model in real time pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
April 2025 – XR in Dentistry Gains Recognition: The British Dental Journal published a letter underscoring how extended reality (XR) – especially AR and VR – is “revolutionising the field of dentistry.” The authors noted XR is being used to immerse dental students in realistic virtual procedure simulations (enhancing training), to overlay 3D dental models for patient education (improving treatment understanding), and to guide surgeons during complex cases with real-time data in their field of viewnature.com.
May 2025 – AR + AI Transforming Implant Planning: Dental tech experts reported that combining artificial intelligence with AR could streamline dental implant surgery from planning to execution. In an interview and recent proof-of-concept study, AI algorithms were used to analyze CBCT scans and plan optimal implant positioning, while an AR headset would overlay the plan onto the patient during surgery for real-time guidance in.dental-tribune.comin.dental-tribune.com.