Using mirror visual feedback and virtual reality to treat fibromyalgia

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 495-496

  Ramachandran, V S ^a,b   Seckel, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; LIMB PAIN; MIRROR VISUAL FEEDBACK; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; RATING SCALE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; KETAMINE; LOWER EXTREMITY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958497847     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Schweinhardt P., Sauro K.M., Bushnell M.C. Fibromyalgia: a disorder of the brain?. Neuroscientist 2008, 14(5):415-421.
2. Wolfe F., Smythe H.A., Yunus M.B., Bennett R.M., Bombardier C., Goldenberg D.L., et al. The American college of rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia. Report of the Multicenter Criteria Committee. Arthritis Rheum 1990, 33:160-172.
3. Ramachandran V.S., Blakeslee S. Phantoms in the brain 1998, William Morrow, New York, p. 208.
4. Ramachandran VS, Rogers-Ramachandran D. Synaesthesia in phantom limbs induced with mirrors. Proc Royal Soc London 1996;263:377-86. http://www.cbc.ucsd.edu/pdf/.
5. Ramachandran V.S., Rogers-Ramachandran D., Cobb S. Touching the phantom limb. Nature 1995, 377:489-490.
6. Altschuler EL, Ramachandran VS. A simple method to stand outside oneself. Perception, 2007;36(4):632-4. http://www.cbc.ucsd.edu.
7. Ramachandran, VS, Altschuler, E. The use of visual feedback in restoring brain function. Brain Sci 143:594-6. http://www.cbc.ucsd.edu.
8. Ramchandran V.S. Decade of the brain symposium 1996, UCSD School of Social Sciences, La Jolla CA 92014.