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 ...

Some amputees are languishing in pain for weeks using ill-fitting or defective artificial limbs, and others are “giving up” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medical device company SPR Therapeutics makes a neuromodulation system in Minnesota that can treat pain in a person's limbs — even limbs that were amputated long ago. Treating phantom-limb pain ...

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

The adorable salamanders are helping scientists investigate a serious question: Could the human body be coaxed to regrow a ...

Phantom limb pain (PLP) and post‐amputation pain present significant challenges that affect the lives of amputees worldwide. PLP is characterised by the perception of pain in a limb that is no ...

ACT Health spokesperson Todd Stephenson says the Government should sell the New Zealand Artificial Limb Service so amputees ...