After amputation of an arm, most amputees report vivid and continuous sensations of their missing limb. Some can even move their missing hand as if it were still there. For many amputees, though, ...

A new treatment appears to help relieve the "phantom limb pain" that people who have undergone amputations or have paralysis in a limb sometimes experience, a new study from Japan finds. In the study, ...

U.K. scientists have created a virtual-reality program to treat patients who've lost a limb. Early tests show the simulation can ease an amputee's phantom pain. A computer-generated virtual-reality ...

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 ...

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 ...

New evidence counters the conventional wisdom that limb amputation leads to reorganization of the map the brain uses to track the body’s location. When researchers compared three patients before and ...

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a potential treatment which relies on engineering ...

Dr. James Rathmell answers the question: 'Does Phantom Limb Pain Ever Go Away?' — -- Question: What Is Phantom Limb Pain And Does It Ever Go Away? Answer: Phantom Limb Pain is I guess best ...

Scientists have developed a new theory for the origin of the mysterious condition, 'phantom limb pain'. The hypothesis builds upon previous work on a revolutionary treatment for the condition, that ...

Nearly five years ago, Albert Yu-Min Lin was out with a friend in an open-top four-wheel-drive vehicle—a cross between a golf cart and a Jeep. Bombing around the desert and kicking up clouds of dust ...

Victoria Root receives funding from Oxford & Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership – Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Scholarship. After amputation of an arm, most ...