Sentences with phrase «treating phantom limb»
Five study participants found that BMI training reduced pain more than previous therapies, suggesting that this is a promising approach for treating phantom limb pain.
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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.
«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.
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.
It was most often used to treat seizures and neurologic pain in humans; amputees use it to treat the «phantom pain» associated with losing a limb.