How wearing a cast affects sense of touch and brain activity
By A Mystery Man Writer
Last updated 17 Jul 2024
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Just a few weeks in a cast can desensitise the trapped hand’s sense of touch, and lower neural activity in the part of the brain that receives signals from it. The uninjured hand, however, rises to the occasion and picks up the sensory slack by becoming more sensitive than before.
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