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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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Stroke, complex regional pain syndrome and phantom limb pain: Can commonalities direct future management? [PDF]
, 2007 Despite being different conditions, complex regional pain syndrome type 1, phantom limb pain and stroke share some potentially important similarities. This report examines experimental and clinical findings from each patient population.
Acerra, Nicole E. +2 more
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2022 Currently, there is neither a standardized mode for the documentation of phantom sensations and phantom limb pain, nor for their visualization as perceived by patients.
Michael Bressler +6 more
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Phantom limb pain: thinking outside the (mirror) box
Brain : a journal of neurology, 2021 Despite our best efforts over the past century, our mechanistic understanding of phantom limb pain and our ability to treat it have remained limited.
T. Makin
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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.
Eric eChang +5 more
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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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Body image and perception among adults with and without phantom limb pain
PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation, 2021 Following lower‐limb amputation, phantom limb pain (i.e., pain perceived as coming from the amputated portion of the limb) is common. Phantom limb pain may be associated with impaired body image and perception, which may be targets for rehabilitative ...
Emma H Beisheim-Ryan +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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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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