Sunday, 24 June 2012

Healing Hands: Mirages and Illusions

The MIRAGE multisensory illusions box can create a powerful illusion that the hand or fingers are being stretched or shrunk. This is done by pulling or pushing on the fingers or hand while a live video image of the hand is stretched or shrunk at the same time. A chance discovery appeared to show that these illusions can reduce the experience of pain in osteoarthritis patients.


Read about some of the early research into this:
http://bodyinmind.org/mirage-and-osteoarthritis-pain/


The original BBC news article and video (from a year ago) are here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13068924



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