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Chapter 4 Mirror Box Therapy

The night rain outside became heavier, falling in the wet and cold corners of the alley, and the broken neon lights were flashing with faint lights.

The mercenaries either guarded the store door or smoked next to the alley wall.

The splashing rain could not dispel the smoke from the cigarettes in their hands. The cigarette butts fell on piles of garbage that had not been cleaned for many days with sparks. The stray cats that were originally hiding in the garbage pile jumped past.

"My right hand, take it!"

Commander Lorna urged his subordinates to the door again. When he turned around, he saw that Fan Debao had not yet gone to get the wine, he also urged:

"What are you doing while standing there? You're going to drink! I'm afraid I'm owing a debt? My sister just finished a deal today and she's so much money."

Soon, Gu He saw a team of female mercenaries walking into the izakaya, and they worked together to lift one hand.

It was a hand, from the arm to the fingers, but...

It was a few sizes larger than Captain Lorna's left hand, and it was even bigger than the hands of those muscular men of Brother Zhuang. Its skin was dark red, like a layer of burned scar, strange and terrifying.

And there are still blood stains that are not dry and ticked in the fingers, back of the hand, and I don’t know whose blood is it.

"Uh..." Gu He smelled the smell of blood getting closer and closer, barely restrained his calm and professional peace.

What kind of prosthesis is this? He couldn't tell what material it was, like a certain metal or a certain flesh and blood.

The prosthetic limb was obviously very heavy. Several female mercenaries blushed until their faces were raised, so they came to the bar.

Captain Lorna took off her black leather jacket, which contained a sleeveless white T-shirt. Her empty right shoulder was facing the bloody hand.

Suddenly, a bunch of messy blood lines like electric wires rushed out from her right acromion, and the humeral head of the prosthesis limb was also the same. The blood lines on both sides were dancing like tentacles, and they were actually wrapped and combined.

Before Gu He could see clearly, the large bloody hand was connected to her right shoulder, as if it were one.

"Um." Captain Lorna turned his right shoulder and swung his prosthesis twice, and his joints made crackling sounds.

She flexibly grabbed a bottle of aged Fenggu wine that Van Debao had just taken out of the wine cabinet with her right hand, easily opened the cork bottle cap, drank it directly, and drank almost half a bottle in one sip.

"Thirty years of Fenggu is just enough."

Then she filled an empty wine glass and pushed it to Gu He next to her, "Come on, young man, try it."

While pouring the wine, a drop of undry blood on her right hand fell into the wine glass.

Gu He's smile was almost unrestrained. Once it collapsed, he couldn't say whether his facial features would be ferocious and distorted...

"Ha." Van Debao never forgot to observe him. The performance of the second speed gear has not changed. Now he knows how to be afraid? It's too late.

"Captain Lorna, I'll pay for this bottle of wine now."

Lao Fan felt that in a while, the scene might become ugly, so the account would be collected early.

"What are you anxious about? Who dares to have sex with you Lao Fan for free?" Commander Lorna waved his hand impatiently, "Niulang, what did you ask me just now?"

Gu He was a little dizzy again. He looked at her prosthetic limbs at such a close distance, and the more he looked, the more he felt a little strange.

The vortex of light balls in his mind did not have any effect. He was as if he was hit by a force, torn... and even a strange and inexplicable phantom flashed in front of him.

Lao Fan's glass of wine that tests talent is so powerful...

"Why don't you speak?" There was a hint of madness in Captain Lorna's eyes, just waiting for him to scream.

Fan Debao quietly packed up the precious wine utensils on the bar and prepared to welcome Gu He's out of control.

"I mean..." Gu He tried hard to calm down. Well, he was a little bit too small and unprofessional.

From Zhuang Ge's strange head, you can know that some medical and biological technologies in this world are particularly developed.

The Earth also studies the field of bionic prosthetic limbs, such as neural control, intelligent sensing, and implantable bone integration. These technologies are changing with each passing day, but they are not as advanced and cool as her prosthetic limbs.

"What is your dream life like?" he asked gently, don't panic, patients are also ordinary people.

Commander Lorna drank another sip of wine, but unexpectedly the new Cowherd was still tense and could not get angry. "I have no bullshit dreams like this mud. I am almost annoyed by this hand, and I still have a dream."

Gu He smiled in his heart, this is coming!

question.

Problems are the key to psychotherapy. Only when the patient speaks the problem can the therapist start, and there is no need for treatment if there is no problem.

"What's wrong?" he asked casually.

"I just can't figure it out." Captain Lorna lowered his head and drank a muffled wine, saying, "This thing has always been compatible and indigestion. It feels like a virus invading my program, so my personality is very unstable."

Van Debao, who was still packing up the wine utensils, interjected: "Captain Lorna, you should go to the doctor, not the Cowherd."

Gu He analyzed in his heart that although she expressed her feelings more literaryly, he understood.

"Does it hurt from time to time? And it feels like my original right hand is hurting? Sometimes there are some related hallucinations?"

Commander Lorna looked at him suddenly, with wires and silicon strips dancing in a mess, "How did you know?"

There were also other doubts on Vanderbao's fat face.

"Because you haven't been wearing prosthetic limbs all the time." Of course Gu He knew, her problem was clearly "phantom limb pain".

More than 50% of amputation patients will have this symptoms, and the pathology is still unclear, which is still a medical problem. I didn’t expect that this is the case in this world.

Who doesn’t love health and which girl doesn’t love beauty?

Losing a hand, being disabled, forced to get a stunning kirin arm, often cast strange eyes by the world.

How much mental stress will this cause? It is normal for patients to have psychological trauma, which in turn will aggravate phantom limb pain.

At this time, a psychologist needs to intervene.

Therefore, he has been in contact with such patients before and knows that a cutting-edge therapy to relieve phantom limb pain is very efficient.

"I have a treatment method." Gu He said and looked around, "Is there a mirror here?"

Local method? Although no one thought it would be useful, Captain Lorna wanted to play with it, so he urged Van Debao. Several female subordinates found a mirror and a coverless wooden box for wine according to Gu He's intention.

First, two holes were made on one side of the wooden box, and then inserted the mirror in the middle of the wooden box and divided it into two halves, with a hole on one side.

Under Gu He's instructions, Captain Lorna's hands and palms reached into the wooden box from the holes on both sides.

Use a piece of cloth to completely cover your right hand, revealing only the left side of the wooden box.

In this way, her left hand was there, because there was a mirror, and it seemed that her right hand was intact.

"Let your left hand move slowly, listen to me, clench your fists, and relax..."

Gu He continued to guide him, which is called mirror box therapy.

It regulates the brain's perceptual nerves by causing the patient to have the visual illusion that the broken limb is still there, inducing the coupling of somatosensory and motor pathways between the phantom limbs, prosthetic limbs and real limbs.

"That's it?" Captain Lorna stopped and did not cooperate, with a look of suspicion and a ridiculous disgust. "It's really rustic."

Several female mercenaries around the bar also shook their heads and laughed.

I have known for a long time that so many street prosthetic doctors can't solve the problem, and it is impossible for a wild dog to have a solution.

But Van Debao's doubts are getting heavier and heavier. It is really surprising that this second-speed boy can make trouble until now.

"Try it." Gu He persuaded, raising his hand and repeatedly clenching his fists and relaxing his fists.

Many people look down on simple and cheap mirror box therapy at the beginning, but in the end they are really delicious.

"No money anyway." He added another sentence.

As far as he knows, the saying "No money anyway" has a strange persuasion for the majority of patients.

"I'll try it." Captain Lorna snorted and laughed, looking into the mirror box, slowly clenched his fists with his left hand and loosened his fists...
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