Prosthetic hand capable of delivering texture sensations

A new prosthetic system allows amputees to feel familiar sensations and also, somewhat unexpectedly, reduces their phantom pain. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center developed the system to reactivate areas of the brain that produce the sense of touch, but recipients of prosthetic hands reported their phantom pain subsiding almost completely after being hooked up to the system... Continue Reading Prosthetic hand capable of delivering texture sensations



Section: Health and Wellbeing



Tags: Case Western Reserve University, Hand, Prosthetics



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