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The Use of Mindfulness Meditation to Increase the Efficacy of Mirror Visual Feedback for Reducing Phantom Limb Pain in Amputees [PDF]
Phantom limb pain is a chronic pain condition that negatively impacts the lives of over half of amputees, and results in considerable morbidity. Currently, there is no gold standard for treatment for phantom limb pain.
Mills, Nicolas Sebastian
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Cortical reorganization and pain memory are theories to explain phantom limb pain and other postamputation phantom phenomena. This study was undertaken to identify evidence of cortical reorganization in lower limb amputees and to find evidence for the ...
Crawford, Kath+3 more
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Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914), justly regarded as one of the founding fathers of neurology, published accounts of phantom limbs in the 1860s and 1870s,1 around the time that neurology was emerging as an independent clinical discipline (although earlier accounts of phantom limbs are recognised2).
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Phantom Sensations: What's a Brain to Do? A Critical Review of the Re-mapping Hypothesis [PDF]
I will review the most widely held account of phantom sensations; the “re-mapping hypothesis.” According to the re-mapping hypothesis, amputation is followed by significant neural reorganization that, over time, restores the alignment between the brain’s
DeFranco, Daniel
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Visually induced analgesia: seeing the body reduces pain [PDF]
Given previous reports of strong interactions between vision and somatic senses, we investigated whether vision of the body modulates pain perception. Participants looked into a mirror aligned with their body midline at either the reflection of their own
Aglioti, S.M.+3 more
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Perioperative analgesia in decreasing the incidence and or severity of phantom pain-non-randomised observational study between intravenous morphine versus intramuscular diclofenate [PDF]
PURPOSEOFTHESTUDY To evaluate the perioperative intravenous morphine and intramuscular diclofenate in reducing the incidence of phantom limb pain as well as the severity of phantom pain following lower limb amputation.
Chon, Chong Kuan
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This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of phantom limb ...
Black, Lance M.
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Psychophysiological Contributions to Phantom Limbs [PDF]
Recent studies of amputees reveal a remarkable diversity in the qualities of experiences that define the phantom limb, whether painless or painful. This paper selectively reviews evidence of peripheral, central and psychological processes that trigger or modulate a variety of phantom limb experiences.
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W R, HENDERSON, G E, SMYTH
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