[AMP-L] Using Virtual Reality to Relieve Phantom Limb Pain ]Video]

[Wayne Renardson]

via NBC News: University Texas:

Researchers at UTD are using VR and 3D technology to help relieve the 
phantom limb pains of veterans living with amputations. Local 
veterans living with an amputation are getting a chance to use 
virtual reality in a way they likely had never imagined.  

A clinical trial of a therapy to alleviate phantom limb pain is 
underway at The University of Texas at Dallas.  

The researchers´ therapy, called Mixed Reality System for Managing 
Phantom Pain, is designed to help the brain resolve the signals.  

Phantom limb pain is believed to be caused by mixed signals to the  
brain after an amputation.

The rest of the story, with video, here:

https://tinyurl.com/2kawc2xq

Wayne R.