—Researchers are uncovering the intricate networks of the peripheral and central nervous systems involved in phantom limb pain, and developing and testing promising treatments. Reviewed by Christopher ...
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 longer ...
Up to 90 percent of people who have lost a limb continue to have pain where the arm or leg used to be. It's called phantom limb pain, and it can be debilitating. James Wolf lost part of his right leg ...
The Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UC San Diego received a $1.3 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to fund a clinical trial investigating the therapeutic ...
Joyce Johnson was 44 years old when she learned she’d have to undergo a below-knee amputation on her right leg due to a severe blood clot. For a time, she thought losing a limb and adjusting to using ...
Dr Max Ortiz Catalan of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed a new theory for the origin of the mysterious condition, 'phantom limb pain'. Published in the journal Frontiers in ...
Easing phantom limb pain can be as simple as looking in the mirror. Scientists who have mapped how mirror therapy changes the brain may now be able to predict just how much treatment will ease a ...
Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Neuroscientists have long held that the brain reorganizes itself when a body part is amputated. A new ...
Dr Max Ortiz Catalan of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed a new theory for the origin of the mysterious condition, 'phantom limb pain'. Published in the journal Frontiers in ...
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