Neck pain patient deemed to be a candidate for pain control treatment with interventional fluoroscopically guided cervical epidural steroid injection as determined by their pain medicine provider based on history, physical exam, and radiographic findings
Willingness to undergo pre-procedural intervention of VR viewing experience or equivalent pre-procedural wait time
No history of prior epidural steroid injections
Did not receive sedatives prior to or during procedure
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Refusal / inability to participate or provide consent
Contraindications to injection (anticoagulated states, allergy to components of injection, local infection at injection site, current infectious process or treatment of antibiotics for current infection)
Uncontrolled anxiety disorder or untreated/inadequately treated psychiatric disorder
History of Alzheimer's, dementia, or cognitive dysfunction
Patient currently taking benzodiazepines
Severe motion sickness
Seizure disorder
Vision loss
Non-English speaking patients
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