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مجله پژوهش در علوم توانبخشی, 2011 Background and purpose: Amputation is one of the most deleterious events that one may experience throughout his/her life. Gait patterns adopted by Amputees with prosthesis can cause such various types of pain as back pain, hip joint pain and ...
Elham Esfandiari +4 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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Plasticity and awareness of bodily distortion [PDF]
, 2016 Knowledge of the body is filtered by perceptual information, recalibrated through predominantly innate stored information, and neurally mediated by direct sensory motor information.
Pazzaglia, Mariella, Zantedeschi, Marta
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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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Visually induced analgesia: seeing the body reduces pain [PDF]
, 2009 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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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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Phantoms and phantom limbs: history of describing the phenomenon
Эпилепсия и пароксизмальные состояния“Phantom” is the sensation of missing body part. Phantom can occur after amputation of virtually any part of the body, but more often after amputation of the upper or lower limbs defined as a “phantom limb”.
D. I. Korabelnikov +2 more
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Use of Calcitonin in Recalcitrant Phantom Limb Pain Complicated by Heterotopic Ossification
Pain Research and Management, 2015 A common complication following amputation is phantom sensation, which may include experiencing pain in the phantom limb. This study details the management of phantom limb pain in a 72-year-old man, in whom comorbid heterotopic ossification was present ...
Ricardo Viana, Michael WC Payne
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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 phenomena in limb amputees – a review article [PDF]
Rehabilitacja Medyczna, 2018 Amputation leading to the loss of a body part is associated not only with significant economic costs, but also serious consequences of medical and socio-psychological nature. It is the ultimate means to save a life or improve its quality.
Paweł Krawczyk +7 more
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