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.
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Phantom Limb Pain and Painful Neuroma After Dysvascular Lower-Extremity Amputation:A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]
, 2023 Background: Phantom limb pain (PLP) and symptomatic neuroma can be debilitating and significantly impact the quality of life of amputees. However, the prevalence of PLP and symptomatic neuromas in patients following dysvascular lower limb amputation (LLA)
Barker, Tom +8 more
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Making sense of phantom limb pain [PDF]
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & 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.
Hunter R Schone +6 more
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Central nervous system stimulation therapies in phantom limb pain: a systematic review of clinical trials [PDF]
, 2021 Phantom limb pain is a chronic pain syndrome that is difficult to cope with. Despite neurostimulation treatment is indicated for refractory neuropathic pain, there is scant evidence from randomized controlled trials to recommend it as the treatment ...
Cardona, Diana +4 more
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Phantom Limb Sensation (PLS) and Phantom Limb Pain (PLP) among Young Landmine Amputees [PDF]
, 2016 How to Cite This Article: Poor Zamany Nejat Kermany M, Modirian E, Soroush M, Masoumi M, Hosseini M. Phantom Limb Sensation (PLS) and Phantom Limb Pain (PLP) Among Young Landmine Amputees. Iran J Child Neurol.
HOSSEINI, Maryam +4 more
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Managing pain by visually distorting the size of painful body parts: is there any therapeutic value? [PDF]
, 2016 Painful conditions such as complex regional pain syndrome, phantom limb pain and low back pain may change the sense of body image, so that body parts are perceived as large, swollen, heavy or stuck in one position [1]. In 1995, Ramachandran et al.
Johnson, MI, Wittkopf, PG
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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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Phantom Limb Pain: Low Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Unaffected Hemisphere [PDF]
, 2011 Phantom limb pain is very common after limb amputation and is often difficult to treat. The motor cortex stimulation is a valid treatment for deafferentation pain that does not respond to conventional pain treatment, with relief for 50% to 70% of ...
Di Rollo, Andrea, Pallanti, Stefano
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, 2016 Almost anyone with a limb amputation experiences phantom sensations. Moreover, the majority of amputees experience pain. This phenomenon is known as ‘Phantom pain’ and is described as the pain felt from a body part, usually a limb, which is no longer ...
Duca, Kristina, Muscat, Richard
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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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