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Researchers turn to VR to treat phantom limb pain {Engadget}
Nov 15th 2006 5:22PM I'm glad to see that you are an expert in 15 year old research. As for all those researchers that you are speaking about, I have read them. In fact I have read just about every paper on the Phantom Limb Pain. Also hiding behind language that non psychobiology experts do not understand does not help your case. Just so everyone else who reads what he has written is aware. His statements about multiple theories are about 15 years behind the times. He is also confusing stump pain from phantom limb pain. Anyways it's a very difficult area to study, and much of the research is conflicting, due to the nature of amputations. Phantom limb pain is due to cortical reorganization, not mechanosensory receptors. For everyone not an experiment, your brain reprograms itself to make up for the lack of input. You then get input. This virtual reality and mirrored box override that lack of input, and can thus treat phantom limb pain. If the earlier poster was correct, how would virtual reality help treat pain caused by damaged nerve endings? If that was the case virtual reality and mirrors could treat every lots of other types of pain, and it does not.
Researchers turn to VR to treat phantom limb pain {Engadget}
Nov 15th 2006 11:06AM Mr. shaninho
Perhaps you should review your research. There is a big difference between phantom limb pain and stump pain. You are commenting about stump pain, and the statement that some people think it is just psychological, shows your lack of expertise in the area. All pain is psychological. All pain is perceived in your head.
As for this study, I've been following it since it began. This is promising, but so far, there is no advantage over just a mirrored box. Anyways, phantom limb pain is very difficult to research, because no patient has an identical amputation. It is impossible to conduct an ideal experiment with Phantom Limb Pain. Any research, into this is important, and I applaud the researchers for attempting this.
