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Tactile Sensations Help Amputees 'Feel'

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Tactile Sensations Help Amputees 'Feel'

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11 Views • Aug 16, 2018

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15 (UPI) -- Researchers have determined a method to help amputees be convinced that a prosthetic hand belongs to their own body. In a scientific collaboration led by the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, they utilized a combination of two senses -- sight and touch -- instead of just "seeing is believing." Prosthetic limbs often don't feel part of patient's bodies, the scientists said.