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The Final Word: UTD's Balakrishnan Prabhakaran on Virtual Reality Technology for Phantom Limb Pain

The Final Word: UTD’s Balakrishnan Prabhakaran on Virtual Reality Technology for Phantom Limb Pain

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UTD computer scientists developed a phantom pain management system in collaboration with researchers from the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System. [Photo: UTD] dr. Balakrishnan Prabhakarancomputer teacherUT Dallas.…about the co-development of the Mr. MAPP VR system for amputees with phantom limb syndrome. Dean PetersonA US Navy veteran who lost his left leg 16 years …

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UT Dallas researchers use virtual reality to help amputees with phantom limb pain

UT Dallas researchers use virtual reality to help amputees with phantom limb pain

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Every morning and every evening for a month, Dean Peterson put on virtual reality glasses to help him fall asleep. Once a heavy sleeper, he hadn’t slept well since having his left leg amputated in 2005. The carpenter and former Navy combat medic tossed and turned in his bed, kept awake by pain where his …

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