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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

03/15/2024 March 15, 2024. Amputees often feel a phantom pain where the lost limb used to be. The brain is confused. But mirror therapy can help — perhaps better than painkillers.

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

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 can be every bit as real as any of those pain sensations for specific individuals without the mechanism or opportunity to do anything about it,” said Jared Howell, ...