The Method Of Reducing Phantom Limb Pain Using Optical See-Through Head Mounted Display

One of the possible causes of the phantom limb pain (PLP), which have not been clarified medically, is said that a brain is unable to adapt to the loss of limbs. Even though a brain sends a signal to move limbs, the feedback on the signal is not given because the limbs to which a brain sent the signal are no longer in existence. Recently, some kinds of treatment are introduced, which is making patients feel that their phantom limbs are in existence and they are able to move the phantom limbs actually by their own will, but each of them has some difficulty. In this research, we propose the method of PLP treatment using an optical see-through Head Mounted Display (HMD) that can adapt to the telescoping of phantom limbs and make it easy for patients to communicate with people around them.