«We wanted to focus on patients with chronic
phantom limb pain who had not responded to any treatments.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
Amputees
who experience «
phantom limb pain» could find relief with a 3D virtual reality system that creates the illusion that they can once again control their missing
limb.
People
who lose an arm or leg often experience
phantom limb pain, as if the missing
limb was still there.
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.
«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.