Today, slashdot.org had a post concerning the use of Virtual Reality (VR) technology to cure phantom limb pain (PLP). PLP is the sensation one may feel after the loss of a limb via amputation. For example lets say a person's left leg is amputated due to diabetes but they still feel pain in their left foot even though they no longer have that limb; this is PLP. The Virtual Reality comes into play by tricking the amputee's brain into believing they still have the limb and therefore reduces pain felt in PLP.
Some may differ in this opinion but I consider this to be bioinformatics related since its the use of computer science techniques to address a biological or clinical problem. What does everyone else think?
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