by University of California, San Francisco A UC San Francisco-led research team has detected the immunological remnants of a common seasonal virus in spinal fluid from dozens of patients diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)—a polio-like illness that causes permanent, sometimes life-threatening paralysis in young children. The findings provide the clearest evidence to date that...
Tag: <span>Limb pain</span>
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Exercise opposite side to keep casted limb strong
When you injure an arm, exercising the same healthy limb on the other side of the body may be key to maintaining strength and muscle size in the injured limb, a University of Saskatchewan study shows. Justin Andrushko (right) and Jonathan Farthing study new ways to maintain a strength of injured limbs. Credit: Amanda Davenport...
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Virtual reality eases phantom limb pain
Testing at the China Rehabilitation Research Centre. Virtual reality can relieve the sensation of phantom limb pain. A new test devised by researchers at Aalborg University shows that VR technology can trick the amputee’s brain into thinking that it is still in control of a missing limb. If a hand, an arm or a leg...
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Phantom movements in augmented reality helps patients with chronic intractable phantom limb pain
Dr Max Ortiz Catalan at Chalmers University of Technology, the Department of Signals and systems, has developed a novel method of treating phantom limb pain using machine learning and augmented reality. This approach has been tested on over a dozen of amputees with chronic phantom limb pain who found no relief by other clinically available...