Prosthesis with information at its fingertips: Hand prosthesis that eases phantom pain

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Prosthesis with information at its fingertips: Hand prosthesis that eases phantom pain

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The pain of losing a body part is twofold, as patients not only suffer from wound pain. Often they are also affected by so called phantom pain. Unlike bodily wounds which will eventually heal, phantom pain often lasts for years and sometimes a lifetime. Now scientists in Germany have modified conventional hand prostheses in order to reduce phantom pain after an underarm amputation.

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Most Recently Shared on August 10, 2010 at 8:53 pm By:

SethDeborah HypnoticHealth

This is fantastic. The brain picks up the feedback from the prosthesis as if it was one´s own hand, explaining the... http://fb.me/vabtLn5D

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