phantom limb pain

Mirror therapy may help some people who have phantom limb pain.

Various methods have been used to treat phantom limb pain.

It was a kind of phantom limb pain, the medics had told him then.

The new study on phantom limb pain tests a technique called mirror therapy.

Long-term projects following the end of the civil war included psychological support and phantom limb pain management.

Successful treatment of phantom limb pain may be challenging.

The result was a definitive account of what is now widely recognized as phantom limb pain.

Early in his career he did a seminal study of phantom limb pain (see the reference below).

Eighteen patients took part, each of whom had phantom limb pain from an amputated foot.

The point was to see if their brain and nerves would dim phantom limb pain based on what they saw in the mirror.

During the past twenty years researchers have advanced a number of theories to explain phantom limb pain.

Phantom limb pain is a common experience of amputees.

Age and gender have not been shown to affect the onset or duration of phantom limb pain.

A common side effect of phantom limbs is phantom limb pain.

All of the patients in the mirror therapy group reported a drop in their phantom limb pain.

The quality of evidence in patients with complex regional pain syndrome and phantom limb pain is also low.

Deep brain stimulation is a surgical technique used to alleviate patients from phantom limb pain.

One study found that eight days after amputation, 72 percent of patients had phantom limb pain, and six months later, 65 percent reported it.

First, they rated their phantom limb pain.

There are many different treatment options for phantom limb pain that are actively being researched.

With the left-arm amputation woman mentioned above, her phantom limb pain returned after surgery.

Phantom eye pain is considerably less common than phantom limb pain.

DBS has also been applied for phantom limb pain.

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Because of this, friends call with symptoms, and I tell them what they have: bursitis, rat bite fever, phantom limb pain.