Posted on Aug 13, 2018
Amputees Feeling As If Prosthetic Belongs To Their Own Body
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Now, in a scientific collaboration led by EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), scientists show that amputees can actually be convinced that the prosthetic hand belongs to their own body. They do this by going beyond the “seeing is believing” idiom based on established research on how the brain identifies what belongs to its own body. Instead of using the sense of sight alone, they used an astute combination of two senses: sight and touch. The results are published today in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
Amputees Feeling As If Prosthetic Belongs To Their Own Body
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This has been on the radar for a while. The development of electronic hands and now "tactile" skin, along with surgical attachments within the nerve system of recent amputees has been going on at Johns Hopkins for several years. It's still a long way from going out to the general amputee public. Also, it would be a bit difficult to navigate life using VR goggles all the time in order to achieve the full sensory that the prosthetic is actually part of the body.
I'd be happier if they could figure out how to stop phantom pain...like that damned shooting pain that starts at the end of the stump and blows out the end of your limb pain. Drives me nuts after a couple of days.
http://www.njherald.com/20180729/electronic-skin-developed-at-johns-hopkins-allows-amputees-to-feel-sensations-in-prosthetic-hands#
I'd be happier if they could figure out how to stop phantom pain...like that damned shooting pain that starts at the end of the stump and blows out the end of your limb pain. Drives me nuts after a couple of days.
http://www.njherald.com/20180729/electronic-skin-developed-at-johns-hopkins-allows-amputees-to-feel-sensations-in-prosthetic-hands#
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