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Real-time Video Projection in an MRI for Characterization of Neural Correlates Associated with Mirror Therapy for Phantom Limb Pain
Published on: April 20, 2019
Size reduction using Mirror Visual Feedback (MVF) reduces phantom pain
V S Ramachandran1, David Brang, Paul D McGeoch
1Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA. vramacha@ucsd.edu
Neurocase
|August 7, 2009
Abstract:
Following limb amputation patients continue to feel the vivid presence of a phantom limb. A majority of patients also experience pain in the phantom and sometimes (as in our case DS) the pain is severe. Remarkably we find that optically 'resurrecting' the phantom with a mirror and using a lens to make the phantom appear to shrink caused the pain to 'shrink' as well.
