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.

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, ...

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 ...

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

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.

After all, there are no nerves going to a limb that is no longer there, he said. The thinking is that the emotional and psychological trauma of losing that limb may play some role in the pain itself. ...

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, ...