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Clinical updates on phantom limb pain
PAIN Reports, 2021 Phantom limb pain is highly prevalent after amputation. Treatment results will probably benefit from an interdisciplinary team and individually adapted surgical, prosthetic and pain medicine approaches.
J. Erlenwein +4 more
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PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation, 2021 Phantom limb pain (PLP) is common and often accompanied by serious suffering. Current systematic‐review evidence suggests that recommended treatments are no more effective than placebo for reducing PLP.
K. Limakatso, R. Parker
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Psychophysical Evaluation of the Capability for Phantom Limb Movement in Forearm Amputees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 A phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated limb is still attached to the body and is moving together with other body parts. Phantom limb phenomenon is often described on the basis of the patient's subjective sense, for example as represented using
Noritaka Kawashima, Tomoki Mita
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PHANTOM LIMB: CHARACTERISTICS AND MANAGEMENT [PDF]
Euromediterranean Biomedical Journal, 2022 Phantom limb sensation was described for the first time by the French military surgeon Ambroise Pare in the 16th century, where soldiers reported a long-lasting suggestive and physical pain after an amputation.
Gianfilippo Caggiari
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Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 2021 Phantom limb pain (PLP) is a frequent complication in amputees, which is often refractory to treatments. We aim to assess in a factorial trial the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and mirror therapy (MT) in patients with ...
M. Gunduz +11 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Objectives Randomised controlled trial of the effect of a perineural infusion of levobupivacaine on moderate/severe phantom limb pain 6 months after major lower limb amputation.Setting Single-centre, UK university hospital.Participants Ninety patients ...
Lesley Colvin +4 more
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Phantom limb pain: thinking outside the (mirror) box
Brain : a journal of neurology, 2021 Despite our best efforts over the past century, our mechanistic understanding of phantom limb pain and our ability to treat it have remained limited.
T. Makin
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 Targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) surgery involves the coaptation of amputated nerves to nearby motor nerve branches with the purpose of reclosing the neuromuscular loop in order to reduce phantom limb pain. The purpose of this case study was to create
Jordan A. Borrell +10 more
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Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 2021 Background Phantom limb pain (PLP) is a common and in some cases debilitating consequence of upper- or lower-limb amputation for which current treatments are inadequate.
Elisabetta Ambron +5 more
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Body image and perception among adults with and without phantom limb pain
PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation, 2021 Following lower‐limb amputation, phantom limb pain (i.e., pain perceived as coming from the amputated portion of the limb) is common. Phantom limb pain may be associated with impaired body image and perception, which may be targets for rehabilitative ...
Emma H Beisheim-Ryan +4 more
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