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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2001 Phantom pain is experienced by 60% to 80% of patients following limb amputation but is only severe in about 5% to 10% of cases. The mechanisms underlying pain in amputees are not fully understood, but factors in both the peripheral and central nervous system play a role.
Lone Nikolajsen, Troels S. Jensen
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Treatment of phantom limb pain (PLP) based on augmented reality and gaming controlled by myoelectric pattern recognition: a case study of a chronic PLP patient [PDF]
, 2014 A variety of treatments have been historically used to alleviate phantom limb pain (PLP) with varying efficacy. Recently, virtual reality (VR) has been employed as a more sophisticated mirror therapy.
Bo Håkansson +4 more
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International Anesthesiology Clinics, 2016 Phantom limb pain is pain that is perceived in a part of the body which is no longer present. It is estimated that 80 percent of amputees experience phantom limb pain.
Omar, Hatim A. +2 more
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Phantom Limb Pain: Mechanisms and Treatment Approaches [PDF]
, 2011 The vast amount of research over the past decades has significantly added to our knowledge of phantom limb pain. Multiple factors including site of amputation or presence of preamputation pain have been found to have a positive correlation with the ...
Grossberg, George T., Subedi, Bishnu
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Making sense of phantom limb pain. [PDF]
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 2022 Phantom limb pain (PLP) impacts the majority of individuals who undergo limb amputation. The PLP experience is highly heterogenous in its quality, intensity, frequency and severity. This heterogeneity, combined with the low prevalence of amputation in the general population, has made it difficult to accumulate reliable data on PLP.
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Neurology, 2015 The prevalence of phantom limb pain is reported to be as high as 85%. In most amputees, the frequency and intensity of pain attacks decrease over the years; however, approximately 5-10% of amputees continue to have severe phantom limb pain. Unfortunately, the current treatment for chronic phantom limb pain is far from satisfactory.
Nikolajsen, Lone +1 more
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Methadone for Phantom Limb Pain [PDF]
The Clinical Journal of Pain, 2002 The objective of this case series was to determine if severe phantom limb pain could be reduced with oral methadone.Four cases of phantom limb pain refractory to multiple treatment modalities were treated with oral methadone.Pain clinic at a major university medical center.Four patients with severe, intractable phantom limb pain.Oral methadone was ...
Bergmans, Lonneke +3 more
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