Mirror Box and Phantom Limb Pain #1

[ferdponc]

THNKS FOR THE VIDEO JUST HAD A PATIENT WITH A TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION AND WILL USE IT TO IMPROVE PAIN RELIEF NEEDED TO SEE THE DESIGN AGAIN

[Cannball16]

@ferdponc i have chronic left shoulder pain, please msg me.

[NLPMasterSeminar]

Wow! This is an amazing optical illusion!

[yogiakaltv]

hi

[imranbug81]

i am searching for a box which is completely made of mirror with no leaks and then see if we can trap sunlight in it... !

[Cannball16]

@imranbug81 i hope your joking.

[imranbug81]

@Cannball16 nope i though of this when i was 7 still never found out if some one have tried this.................

[Cannball16]

@imranbug81 its impossible.

[imranbug81]

@Cannball16 any logical reason why its impossible !!!

[Cannball16]

@imranbug81 because it would be like full of shadows, duhhh..think about shadows..>.>

[imranbug81]

@Cannball16 whos shadow ?? :-/ ur shadow or my shadow ?

[BassSpleen]

@imranbug81 Sorry I'm gonna crush your 7 years old dream : Everytime a mirror reflects a light, not 100% of it is reflected (A bit is absorb). You know light travels really fast, so in a full mirror box, the light would be absorbed in a few seconds.

[imranbug81]

@BassSpleen i guess i will have to stick with the bulb idea for nights then :D

[ShiomeDotCom]

AWESOME! I just saw the House episode where he cures the military veteran with the amputated arm with a box like this.

[wreck721]

what if someone lost their right arm and their left thumb... what a terrible world we live in.

[randayanday]

Im doing this in my Year 12 Psychology , i was thinking if say you had a scare on your left hand for a long time and your brain has gotten use to seeing that scare for some time and you lose your left arm in a accident or medical issue , and you get pain in that limp , would this solution still work? because your right hand does not have the scare and therefore wouldn't your brain know its the same? If that made sence to anyone your a mad dog :)

[elliotmotoX]

@randayanday Or a tattoo?

[randayanday]

@elliotmotoX yea! i wonder if this technique would still work

[fritspas]

@randayanday

Just scar the remaining hand. That would make the reflection look like the original.

PS: woof

[lookmavideo]

pretty cool. is one supposed to lean to the left so one can see the effect?

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[zimmy81]

vid wouldnt play for some reason, all I got was a blue screen,

[Bouquer]

how would you go about using it on a missing leg... it seems that it might be a bit more difficult

[mustangersalie]

very interesting !

[sgmarshall]

Wouldn't it be occasionally useful for the side of the box furthest from the reflective side to have a top? Even if there are times when you'd want it opened, seems they'd be occasions when having it closed would help prevent seeing the hand.

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

Excellent video. Rama is pure genius. I've watched many of his lectures (all I can find online) and I loved his book Phantoms In The Brain. It remains one of my favorite books.

[M1ST3RHYDE]

Did you happen to see the House episode that used & explained the Phantom limb mirror box. I was trully happy to see that; If not for the only reason that atlease 3 people bought it up to me because of the show. They never knew of that method for some failed medical reason. I give you kudos for your great looking box. The 2 that i'v made were complete junk compaired to yours.

[daleshankins]

I wish there were a phantom limb box for psychiatric traumas. It might help eliminate the need for much of the medication.

[eloisaviruet]

This box was used in an episode of House MD this month

[NorwalkPost]

Yes, "Hose" used this technique in a totally preposterous, unrealistic way and got instantaneous, miraculous only-on-TV results. If Hose is so damned smart, why can't he cure his own limping and bitching?

[cruisingcody]

@NorwalkPost

because that's just too easy

[fLowKnows]

i'm reading ramachandrans book on phantoms (after being introduced through doidge's book) and failed to imagine what the box looked like. now i know, thanks.

after reading about alleviating pain in phantom limbs through imagined amputation, i have an idea about how to alleviate persistent pain in actual limbs through a similar procedure.

[eiretearoa]

Hi Andrew

Do you use this with people experiencing complex regional pain syndrome? It's something we've been doing at the pain management centre in which I work - would love a video if you have been!

[osivibora]

Buena onda ^^)v

[xWolfSpectrex]

damn, you can help a lot of people with that invention