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Induced sensorimotor brain plasticity controls pain in phantom limb patients [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 Pain in a phantom limb after limb deafferentation may be due to maladaptive sensorimotor representation. Here the authors find that sensorimotor plasticity induced by BMI training with the phantom hand, contrary to expectation, increased pain while ...
Takufumi Yanagisawa +10 more
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Chronic phantom pain as a rare phenomenon after gender-affirming surgery: a systematic comparison study [PDF]
PAIN Reports. The occurrence of phantom pain after surgical removal of male reproductive organs is a potential outcome. Indications for surgery may predict the probability of phantom pain after the procedure.
Barbara Schlisio +2 more
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Clinical feasibility and preliminary outcomes of a novel mixed reality system to manage phantom pain: a pilot study [PDF]
Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2022 Background To assess the clinical feasibility of a virtual mirror therapy system in a pilot sample of patients with phantom pain. Methods Our Mixed reality system for Managing Phantom Pain (Mr.
Thiru M Annaswamy +5 more
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Indian J Surg, 2012 Right upper quadrant abdominal pain may be due to many causes, and at times may give rise to diagnostic dilemma. We present here a young lady with biliary type of pain who was eventually found to have gall bladder agenesis with aerobilia, in the absence of prior biliary intervention.
Choudhury N, Talukdar R, Hagjer S.
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Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2012 A phantom syndrome is a pain syndrome that occurs when part of the body, such as the nose, tongue, breast, tooth, testis, penis, bladder, or anus, has been lost as the result of an accident or operation. Its frequency and etiology remain unclear [1]. Phantom bladder pain is a rare phantom syndrome that has not been reported previously in South Korea ...
Kyeong-Eon Park +4 more
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A case of phantom pain and stump pain that was effectively controlled by ultrasound‐guided ulnar and median peripheral nerve blocks [PDF]
Clinical Case Reports, 2023 Phantom limb pain and stump pain are often intractable, and their incidences are relatively high. We report a case of a patient with phantom limb and stump pain of the finger, who was successfully treated by peripheral nerve blocks.
Shunya Sekiguchi +4 more
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Current Review of Pain, 2000 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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Evaluation of the effectiveness of botulinum toxin injection on reducing phantom pain in patients
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2023 Objective: Phantom pain is very common in amputations and is associated with severe pain followed by distress and poor quality of life. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of botulinum toxin injection in reducing phantom pain in ...
Reza Alizadeh +3 more
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Case Report: Spinal cord stimulation for phantom limb pain facilitates upper limb myoelectric prosthesis use [PDF]
Frontiers in Pain ResearchIntroductionThis case describes the application of spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of phantom limb pain in a patient with a left transhumeral amputation. Treatment of pain involving a high frequency spinal cord stimulator allowed the patient to
Lauren E. Penz +3 more
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Phantom limb pain: A literature review
Chinese Journal of Traumatology, 2018 Since the phantom limb sensation was first described by the French military surgeon Ambroise Pare in the 16th century, the number of studies surrounding phantom limb pain has increased every year.
Amreet Kaur, Yuxi Guan
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