MTL - Night Hacker-Chapter 4 mirror box therapy

   Chapter 4 Mirror Box Therapy

   The night rain outside was heavier, and it fell on the wet and cold corner of the alley, and the broken neon lights flickered with dim light.

   Those female mercenaries were either guarding the door of the store or smoking against the alley wall.

  The splashing rain could not dispel the smoke from the cigarettes in their hands. The cigarette butts, accompanied by sparks, fell on the piles of **** that had not been cleaned up for many days. The stray cats who had been hiding in the **** piles jumped past.

   "My right hand, bring it here!"

  Lorna headed towards the door and urged his subordinates again. When he looked back and saw that Vanderbilt hadn't gone to get the wine, he also urged:

   "What are you doing, drinking wine! Afraid that I will owe a debt? My sister just completed a transaction today, and the money is a lot."

   Soon, Gu He saw a team of female mercenaries walk into the izakaya, and they raised a hand together.

   That is a hand, complete structure from arm to fingers, but…

   It was a few sizes bigger than Captain Lorna's left hand, and bigger than the muscular men's hands of Brother Zhuang. The skin was dark red, like a layer of burnt scars, weird and terrifying.

   On the fingers, the back of the hand, etc., there are still tickling bloodstains, I don’t know whose blood is it.

   "Uh..." Gu He smelled the blood that was getting closer and closer, and forced his face to be peaceful, professionally peaceful.

   What kind of prosthesis is this? He didn't know what material it was for a moment, like some kind of metal and some kind of flesh and blood.

   This prosthetic leg is obviously very heavy, and several female mercenaries raised their faces red before they came to the bar.

  Captain Lorna took off his black leather jacket, which was a sleeveless white T-shirt, and her empty right shoulder faced the **** hand.

  Suddenly, from her right acromion, there was a bunch of messy blood lines like wires, and the position of the humeral head of the prosthesis was the same.

   Before Gu He could see clearly, the large **** hand was attached to her right shoulder, like one body.

   "Hmm." Captain Lorna turned her right shoulder and twisted the prosthesis twice, the joints made a crackling sound.

   She nimbly grabbed a bottle of old Fenggu wine that Vanderbilt had just taken out of the wine cabinet with her right hand, easily opened the cork cap, and drank it directly, almost half the bottle in one gulp.

   "Thirty years of Fenggu is enough."

  She then filled an empty wine glass and pushed it to Gu He next to her, "Come on, young man, have a taste."

  During the pouring process, a drop and a half of the wet blood on her right hand fell into the wine glass.

  Gu He's smile is about to be unbearable. Once it collapses, he doesn't know if his facial features will be distorted...

   "Huh." Vanderbilt never forgot to observe him. The performance of the second gear has not changed. Now, do you know how to be afraid? late.

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

   Lao Fan felt that after a while, the scene might become ugly, and the account was received early.

   "What's the hurry? Who dares to prostitute your old fan?" Captain Lorna waved his hand impatiently, "Niulang, what did you ask me just now?"

  Gu Hezheng was a little dizzy again, looking at her prosthetic limb from such a close distance, the more he looked, the more strange his heart palpitations became.

  The vortex of light in his mind didn't work. It was as if he was being impacted, torn apart by a force...even a strange and inexplicable phantom flashed before his eyes.

   Lao Fan's glass of wine to test his talent is really 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, preparing for the scene where Gu He was out of control.

   "I mean..." Gu He tried his best to calm down, well, it's because he is small and unprofessional.

   From the weird head of Brother Zhuang, we can know that some medical and biological technologies in this world are particularly developed.

  Earth also studies the field of bionic prosthetics, neural control, intelligent sensing, and implantable osseointegration. These technologies are changing with each passing day, but they are not as advanced and cool as her prosthetics.

   "What's your dream life like?" He asked gently, don't panic, the patient is also an ordinary person.

   Captain Lorna took another sip of wine, but he didn't expect that the new cowherd would still be able to hold on, and couldn't let out the fire, "I don't have any **** dreams like this scum, I'm almost annoyed to death by this hand, and I still dream."

  Gu He smiled in his heart, this is not coming!

question.

  Problems are the key to psychotherapy. When the patient speaks out about the problem, the therapist can act. If there is no problem, no treatment is needed.

   "What's the matter?" he seemed to ask casually.

   "I just can't figure it out." Captain Lorna lowered her head and drank the suffocating wine, and said, "This thing has always been incompatible with digestion. It feels like a virus has invaded my program, so my personality is very unstable."

  Fan Debao, who was still cleaning up the drinking utensils, inserted a sentence: "Captain Lorna, you should go to the doctor, not the cowherd."

  Gu He analyzed in his heart, although she expressed it in a more elegant manner, but he understood it.

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

  Captain Lorna looked at him, with wires and silicon strips dancing messily, "How do you know?"

  Vanderbilt's fat face also had other doubts.

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

   More than 50% of amputees have this symptom, and the pathology is still unclear, which is still a medical problem. I didn't expect it to be like this in this world.

  Which person doesn't love health and which girl doesn't love beauty?

   Lost a hand, disabled, and was forced to get this amazing unicorn arm, which is often cast by the world's strange eyes.

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

   At this time, a psychiatrist is required to intervene.

   Therefore, he has been in contact with such patients before and knows a cutting-edge therapy for relieving phantom limb pain, which is highly effective.

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

   Earth method? Although everyone didn't think it would be of any use, Captain Lorna wanted to play, and urged Fan Debao and a few female subordinates to find a mirror and an uncovered wooden box for wine according to Gu He's wishes.

   First cut two holes on one side of the wooden box, and then insert the mirror into the middle of the wooden box to divide it into two halves, with one hole on each side.

   Under Gu He's instruction, Captain Lorna's palms of both hands stretched into the wooden box from the openings on both sides.

   Cover the right hand completely with a piece of cloth, exposing only the left side of the wooden box.

   This way, her left hand is there, because there is a mirror image, it seems that her right hand is there as well.

   "Let's move your left hand slowly, listen to me, make a fist, then relax..."

  Gu He continued to instruct, this is called mirror box therapy.

  It induces the coupling of somatosensory and motor pathways between phantom limbs, prosthetic limbs and real limbs, thereby regulating the sensory nerves in the brain.

   "That's it?" Captain Lorna stopped and didn't cooperate, with a look of suspicion and absurd disgust, "It's really shit."

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

   has long known that there are so many problems that street prosthetic doctors can't solve, and it is impossible for a wild dog to solve it.

  Vanderbilt's doubts are getting heavier and heavier. It's really surprising that this two-speed boy can toss up to now.

   "Try it." Gu He persuaded, raising his hand repeatedly to make a fist and release it.

  Many people despise the simple and cheap mirror box therapy at first, but they end up being really fragrant.

   "No money anyway," he added.

   As far as he knows, the phrase "no money anyway" has a peculiar persuasive power to the majority of patients.

   "I'll give it a try." Captain Lorna hummed, looking into the mirror box, her left hand slowly clenched and released her fist...

  As the crowd watched, her expression gradually changed and she was a little surprised.

   (end of this chapter)