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SimuBlade - A Virtual Cutting Instrument: Razor & Knife
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The patented SimuBlade™ was developed in 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bart E. Plaskoff, M.Ed., MSW, a graduate of the University of Southern California, Licensed Secondary School Administrator, and member of the (ISSS) International Society for the Study of Self-Injury, noticed rising trends of self-cutting within the high school environment. He soon discovered his dear friend had been engaging in self-cutting and battling this disorder for many years. Plaskoff soon learned his daughter had been engaging in self-cutting, as well.
Plaskoff was determined to discover the many facets as to why people self-cut and to discover a way to address this epidemic. What Plaskoff found was staggering! There was very little research about self-cutting. Plaskoff discovered that this was partially due to ethical constraints that prohibited research within this area of mental health. Based upon this research or, lack thereof, Plaskoff theorized that when children are abruptly prohibited to self-soothe with an object such as a thumb, blanket or other means of self-soothing, as Winnicott suggested, this may contribute to the reason people turn to self-cutting, which involves an object of attachment. This idea appeared to be different than much of the existing self-harm research that tended to lump together self-cutting and burning (which involves an attachment object) with picking, various eating disorders and trichotillomania (which does not).
Plaskoff felt that perhaps self-cutters had a need to latch onto a replacement object to provide self-soothing, but there had to be a less harmful replacement object. Plaskoff researched Sensory Integration Theory, which addresses the importance of stimulating as many human senses as possible to provide the user the most realistic approach to relief. Sensory Integration Theorists suggested that snapping of a rubber band on the wrist, holding a cold ice cube or using a felt tipped pen would provide a stimulation that the self-cutter might use to replace the knife or blade being used and provide the relief necessary. Plaskoff contended that much like a traumatic event, the brain registers multiple senses during an event which cause the body to react. To minimally stimulate senses one or two at a time, would not be effective. Plaskoff contended that if a self-cutter replaced a knife or blade with an object that that stimulates all the senses simultaneously without harm, the body would react the same as when cutting with a real instrument. Plaskoff called this, Virtual Instrumentation Theory™. A virtual device would take the place of the adverse object and still provide relief to the self-cutter without harm.
Because a virtual device would not cause harm to the user, it would bridge the ethical gap in self-cutting research, which had never before been conducted!
Plaskoff’s initial research suggested that 100% of the Mental Health Professionals surveyed had contended with Clients who were engaging in self-cutting, and over 75% of the Mental Health Professionals surveyed felt that a device to reduce harm of self-cutters would be beneficial to the field of Mental Health. Plaskoff received an invitation by the NIMH to apply for a grant. Plaskoff put together a team of regarded research specialists and experts within the field of Mental Health who continue to work with him.
The very first SimuBlade™ was informally tested in 2012. Currently, many residential treatment facilities have expressed interest in utilizing the SimuBlade™ to provide reduction in harm for their Clients.
Further, new research using the SimuBlade™ to collect more realistic data is now being considered by top research scientists throughout the world including the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University and within the University of Southern California School Of Social Work. This new research may give rise to new data that may provide more insight into this near silent addiction. Finally, Virtual Therapeutic Solutions, Inc. is currently developing a Harm Reduction Module for Self-Cutters™, which utilizes Virtual Instrumentation Therapy™. The Harm Reduction Module for Self-Cutters™, promises to reduce harm and potentially wean the self-cutter from adverse objects during Treatment.
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We are seeking the outright sale of the SimuBlade Patent. This will include full patent ownership, engineering schematics and prototypes. Patent is pending so get it while its hot! We have elected not to post the application number at the recommendation of attorney.
The instrument is currently available for sale, and being used for research at major universities throughout the world.
This instrument is not limited to health. It may be used in the security industry, adult industry, movie industry and more!
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