To the Editor: Phantom limb pain occurs in at least 90% of limb amputees.1 Such pain may be induced by a conflict between visual feedback and proprioceptive representations of the amputated limb.2 ...

Phantom limb pain was assessed on a 100-mm VAS and the McGill Pain Questionnaire–Short Form (SF-MPQ). Dunnett pairwise comparisons were made to compare scores on days 7, 14, and 20 with those on ...

Researchers asked patients to rate their pain on a visual analog scale (VAS) that ranged from 1 (not ... the thousands of veterans who have had limbs amputated and may suffer with phantom limb pain.

Pain reduction, assessed according to visual analogue scale scores, was significantly greater in the rTMS group 15 days after the treatment compared with the sham group (–53.38% ± 53.12% vs ...

A freezing technique may reduce the debilitating phantom limb pain that many amputees experience, ... average patient pain scores on a scale of 1 to 10 went from 6.4 pre-freezing to 2.4, ...

Spinal cord stimulation can elicit sensation in the missing foot and alleviate phantom limb pain in people with lower limb amputations, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine rehabilitation ...

An augmented-reality racing game has given a 72-year-old amputee relief from phantom limb pain for the first time since 1965, Wired UK reports.The man was prone to waking up in the middle of the ...

Pain in a phantom limb after limb deafferentation may be due to maladaptive sensorimotor representation. Here the authors find that sensorimotor plasticity induced by BMI training with the phantom ...

A COMPARISON between First World War casualties and soldiers who have lost limbs to improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan bear striking similarities with ­regard to managing ...

Phantom limb pain frequently occurs following limb amputation or deafferentiation. Emerging evidence suggests that in addition to peripheral changes, plasticity in the CNS has an important role in ...

A pioneering technique significantly reduces phantom limb pain—chronic pain emanating from the site of amputated limbs—according to findings presented at the Society of Interventional ...