Study Uncovers How Electromagnetic Fields Amplify Pain in Amputees

http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2016/2/3-31891_Study-Uncovers-How-Electromagnetic-Fields-Amplify-_story-wide.html

by yostrovs • 10 years ago

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dang• 10 years ago

Url changed from http://www.medgadget.com/2016/02/electromagnetic-fields-show..., which points to this.

irremediable• 10 years ago

The study itself: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Interesting stuff. Not read it properly yet, but I'm a bit sceptical. That said, the abstract makes it sound very thorough.

paulajohnson• 10 years ago

Very intriguing, but I think I want to see some replication. Some blind tests with amputees where the EM field is turned on and off at random should be fairly easy to set up. In the past tests with "allergic to EM" people have always been consistent with the null hypothesis, but I don't believe any of them were amputees.

csense• 10 years ago

The obvious solution to me is to put the patient in a Faraday cage...maybe a wearable foil suit? I'd embed aluminum foil in a Spandex unisuit. Or maybe a fine wire mesh instead of solid foil (depends on the wavelength of common EM sources).

Study Uncovers How Electromagnetic Fields Amplify Pain in Amputees

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