Sentences with phrase «of phantom limb pain»

Researchers have discovered that a «reorganisation» of the wiring of the brain is the underlying cause of phantom limb pain, which occurs in the vast majority of individuals who have had limbs amputated, and a potential method of treating it which uses artificial intelligence techniques.

A popular theory of the cause of phantom limb pain is faulty «wiring» of the sensorimotor cortex, the part of the brain that is responsible for processing sensory inputs and executing movements.

«New insights into cause of phantom limb pain may have therapeutic benefits.»

The exact cause of phantom limb pain and other phantom sensations is yet unknown.

Not exact matches

The question remaining unaddressed is whether cutting off other possibilities of romance and sexual attraction while there's still some dim chance of attaining them in favor of the more muted pleasures of «mature love» isn't similar to voluntarily amputating a healthy limb: a lot of anesthesia is required and the phantom pain never entirely abates.

The method is based on a unique combination of several technologies, and has been initially tested on a patient who has suffered from severe phantom limb pain for 48 years.

He is best known for the work that overlaps with my own interests: using mirrors as a low - tech form of virtual reality to treat phantom - limb pain and stroke paralysis.

In a new study, researchers based at Osaka University reported on their use of brain - machine interface (BMI) training with a robotic hand on 10 phantom limb patients to investigate the association between changes in symptomatic pain and cortical currents during phantom hand movements.

This approach has been tested on over a dozen of amputees with chronic phantom limb pain who found no relief by other clinically available methods before.

«The control group will be treated with one of the current treatment methods for phantom limb pain.

«Even though the hand is gone, people with phantom limb pain still feel like there's a hand there — it basically feels painful, like a burning or hypersensitive type of pain, and conventional painkillers are ineffective in treating it,» said study co-author Dr Ben Seymour, a neuroscientist based in Cambridge's Department of Engineering.

Between 50 and 80 percent of these patients suffer with chronic pain in the «phantom» hand, known as phantom limb pain.

Researchers have long known that simply viewing an image of an amputee's intact foot or arm in a mirror can sometimes help relieve phantom pain, as if the brain's sense of self adjusts its conflicting sensations about the missing limb.

In addition to improved motor control, sensory stimulation could alleviate phantom limb pain, which affects ~ 80 % of amputees (2).

They can also feel excruciating pain in specific parts of the phantom limb

Although the journal devoted considerable attention to pain in amputees» stumps, there was very little discussion of the pain they felt in their missing limbs, despite this phenomenon — known as phantom limb pain — having been identified at least 50 years earlier.

According to the researchers, phantom limb pain was marginalised in medical discussions of the war, possibly because surgeons were helpless to do anything about it.

«We can be pretty certain that phantom limb pain would have been a common problem among the many amputees who survived the war, but at least in this archive, there was curiously little discussion of it or about its management.

He bore shrapnel wounds from World War II that probably shortened his life and she recalls him telling her about soldiers suffering from phantom limb pain, which he equated with the experience of sculpture: it's as real as it can be, but also elusive, residing in the imagination.