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Study Uncovers How Electromagnetic Fields Amplify Pain in Amputees

• dang 11y ago
  Url changed from http://www.medgadget.com/2016/02/electromagnetic-fields-shown-to-produce-pain-in-amputees.html http://www.medgadget.com/2016/02/electromagnetic-fields-show..., which points to this.
• irremediable 11y ago
  The study itself: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0144268 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.
• deleted 11y ago
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• paulajohnson 11y 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 11y 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).