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7. Using virtual reality
7.1 Neuropathic pain
Doctors at the Erasme Hospital in Brussels have experimented with virtual reality for the treatment of neuropathic pain ("phantom" pain affecting a proportion of patients who have had a limb amputated). A device that tracks the patient's movements in real time enables the missing limb to be virtually reconstructed on a screen, and reparative actions to be carried out. A clinical study showed a significant reduction in pain in a significant proportion of patients using the system.
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Regulations (non-exhaustive list)
Articles R. 6316-1 to R. 6316-9 of the French Public Health Code.
Law no. 2009-879 of July 21, 2009 on hospital reform and patients, health and territories (JORF no. 167 of July 22, 2009).
Decree no. 2010-1229 of October 19, 2010 on telemedicine (JORF no. 245 of October 21, 2010).
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