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Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 2020 BACKGROUND Targeted muscle reinnervation is an emerging surgical technique to treat neuroma pain whereby sensory and mixed motor nerves are transferred to nearby redundant motor nerve branches.
Lauren M Mioton +9 more
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Fantom pain: Case report [PDF]
Serbian Journal of Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy, 2017 Background Phantom limb pain is a common problem after limb amputation (41-85%). It is described as an extremely painful sensation in the missing part of the body that can last for hours, days or even years.
Marić Sanja S. +5 more
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Etiology of phantom limb syndrome: Insights from a 3D default space consciousness model [PDF]
, 2015 In this article, we examine phantom limb syndrome to gain insights into how the brain functions as the mind and how consciousness arises. We further explore our previously proposed consciousness model in which consciousness and body schema arise when ...
Crawford, Molly W. +2 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 PurposeThe effect of sensorimotor stripping on neuroplasticity and motor imagery capacity is unknown, and the physiological mechanisms of post-amputation phantom limb pain (PLP) illness remain to be investigated.Materials and methodsIn this study, an ...
Shaowen Liu +8 more
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Agency over Phantom Limb Enhanced by Short-Term Mirror Therapy
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 Most amputees experience phantom limb, whereby they feel that the amputated limb is still present. In some cases, these experiences include pain that can be alleviated by “mirror therapy.” Mirror therapy consists of superimposing a mirrored image of the ...
Shu Imaizumi +4 more
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A robot hand testbed designed for enhancing embodiment and functional neurorehabilitation of body schema in subjects with upper limb impairment or loss. [PDF]
, 2015 Many upper limb amputees experience an incessant, post-amputation "phantom limb pain" and report that their missing limbs feel paralyzed in an uncomfortable posture.
Eric eChang +5 more
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Birth and death of a phantom [PDF]
, 2018 Patients with supernumerary phantom limb report experiencing an additional limb duplicating its physical counterpart, usually following a stroke with sensorimotor disturbances.
Antoniello +20 more
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Treatment of phantom pain with contralateral injection into tender points: a new method of treatment
Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, 2015 Objective The aim of this study was to ascertain the existence of contralateral painful muscle areas mirroring phantom pain and to evaluate the short-term effects of anaesthetics versus saline, injected contralaterally to control phantom and phantom limb
Alaa A El Aziz Labeeb, Roberto Casale
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Most patients, post-amputation, report the experience of a phantom limb. Some even sense voluntary movements when viewing a mirror image of the intact limb superimposed onto the phantom limb.
Shu eImaizumi +7 more
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Motor cortex representation of the upper-limb in individuals born without a hand. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The body schema is an action-related representation of the body that arises from activity in a network of multiple brain areas. While it was initially thought that the body schema developed with experience, the existence of phantom limbs in individuals ...
Karen T Reilly, Angela Sirigu
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