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Heartbeat-enhanced immersive virtual reality to treat complex regional pain syndrome
Pain is inextricably linked to the body and, in the case of chronic pain, a primary health care problem, often associated with abnormalities in the central representation of painful body parts. Recent work in cognitive neuroscience showed that altering the central representation of the body through multisensory bodily inputs such as visuotactile in the rubber hand illusion or visuomotor during mirror therapy may be of relevance for the understanding and treatment of pain
Marco Solcà, Roberta Ronchi, Javier Bello-Ruiz, Thomas Schmidlin, Bruno Herbelin, François Luthi, Michel Konzelmann, Jean-Yves Beaulieu, François Delaquaize, Armin Schnider, Adrian G. Guggisberg, Andrea Serino, Olaf Blanke
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Virtual reality improves embodiment and neuropathic pain caused by spinal cord injury
OBJECTIVES. To investigate changes in body ownership and chronic neuropathic pain in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) using …
Polona Pozeg, Estelle Palluel, Roberta Ronchi, Marco Solcà, Abdul-Wahab Al-Khodairy, Xavier Jordan, Ammar Kassouha, Olaf Blanke
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