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 ...
Oct 27, 2016
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Most amputees use purely aesthetic prostheses. They find it difficult to accept a robotic limb that is not only by and large complicated to use but also has somewhat unnatural motion. Most of the models on the market today ...
Oct 17, 2016
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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 Radiology's 2016 Annual Scientific ...
Apr 6, 2016
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The world's first artificial leg capable of simulating the feelings of a real limb and fighting phantom pain was unveiled by researchers in Vienna on Monday.
Jun 8, 2015
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Researchers from the University of Liverpool have found that approximately half of patients who have an eye removed because of a form of eye cancer experience `phantom eye syndrome.'
May 29, 2015
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A new clinical trial conducted by Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital interventional radiologist J. David Prologo, MD is studying a minimally invasive investigational treatment known as cryoablation therapy, hoped to help relieve ...
Apr 27, 2015
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Pain typically has a clear cause–but not always. When a person touches something hot or bumps into a sharp object, it's no surprise that it hurts. But for people with certain chronic pain disorders, including fibromyalgia ...
Dec 5, 2014
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Army doctors in the First World War were helpless to stop soldiers who lost limbs from suffering in pain, according to researchers.
Nov 6, 2014
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Even before he lost his right hand to an industrial accident 4 years ago, Igor Spetic had family open his medicine bottles. Cotton balls give him goose bumps.
Oct 8, 2014
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People who lose an arm or a leg often experience phantom sensations, as if the missing limb were still there. Seventy per cent of amputees experience pain in the amputated limb despite that it no longer exists.
Mar 10, 2014
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