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'phantom pain' treatment for amputees (no joke) by ag__wyvern2008-03-19 10:00:45
  I wonder how it works on long time amputees. by run.dll2008-03-19 11:46:17
    I also wonder... by jdelphiki 2008-03-19 12:13:43
...if the main neural pathways that are left behind after an amputation could be treated somehow during surgery.

What would *really* be interesting is if they could prep the nerve endings so that they would be ready, at some point in the not-so-distant future, for bionic prosthetics. We really aren't all that far off from it but until we're ready, I could see having the nerve endings hooked up to a device (kinda like a TENS unit) that the wearer could adjust to send "white noise" up the nerve endings when phantom pains hit.
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