After an amputation, you may feel pain in your missing limb. This is known as phantom limb pain. Here’s why it happens and what you can do.

Phantom limb pain affects nearly 40 percent of amputees, often persisting despite medications and therapy. Reconstructive surgeon Shaun Mendenhall, MD, outlines why surgical techniques are now ...

Phantom limb pain can be a debilitating and confusing experience for those who have lost a limb. Despite the absence of the limb itself, the brain still perceives pain as if it were there. In this ...

After her accident, Karin dealt with excruciating phantom limb pain, and the existing conventional prosthetic limbs were uncomfortable and not great for everyday use.

An estimated 80% of whom experience some form of phantom limb pain, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, assistant professor at UT-Dallas talks about a new therapy, ...

And limb amputation almost always results in agonizing pain from nerve endings that used to be attached to the surgically removed limbs. The ends of the nerves that have been cut send messages of ...

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When my sister and I were little, we were fascinated with my grandpa’s hand. Or rather I should say his lack of a hand. He ...

Phantom Limb Pain: The perception of pain in a limb that has been amputated, often resulting from maladaptive cortical reorganisation and altered sensory processing.