Effectiveness of mirror therapy, motor imagery, and virtual feedback on phantom limb pain following amputation: a systematic review

L Herrador Colmenero… - Prosthetics and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Phantom limb pain is reported in 50%–85% of people with amputation. Clinical
interventions in treating central pain, such as mirror therapy, motor imagery, or virtual visual …

Recent advances in understanding and managing phantom limb pain

A Aternali, J Katz - F1000Research, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Post-amputation phantom limb pain (PLP) is highly prevalent and very difficult to treat. The
high-prevalence, high-pain intensity levels, and decreased quality of life associated with …

Effects of phantom exercises on pain, mobility, and quality of life among lower limb amputees; a randomized controlled trial

A Zaheer, AN Malik, T Masood, S Fatima - BMC neurology, 2021 - Springer
Background The objective of the current study is to evaluate the effects of phantom exercises
on phantom limb pain, mobility status, and quality of life in lower limb amputees treated with …

A review of the management of phantom limb pain: challenges and solutions

C Richardson, J Kulkarni - Journal of pain research, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background Phantom limb pain (PLP) occurs in 50% and 80% of amputees. Although it is
often classified as a neuropathic pain, few of the large-scale trials of treatments for …

Systematic review of management of chronic pain after surgery

V Wylde, J Dennis, AD Beswick, J Bruce… - Journal of British …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background Pain present for at least 3 months after a surgical procedure is considered
chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) and affects 10–50 per cent of patients. Interventions for …

Clinical practice guidelines for the rehabilitation of lower limb amputation: an update from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense

JB Webster, A Crunkhorn, J Sall… - American journal of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Between 2015 and 2017, the US Department of Veterans Affairs and the US Department of
Defense developed a clinical practice guideline for rehabilitation of lower limb amputation to …

Primary motor cortex changes after amputation correlate with phantom limb pain and the ability to move the phantom limb

E Raffin, N Richard, P Giraux, KT Reilly - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
A substantial body of evidence documents massive reorganization of primary sensory and
motor cortices following hand amputation, the extent of which is correlated with phantom …

A systematic literature review of physiotherapy and rehabilitation approaches to lower-limb amputation

Ö Ülger, T Yıldırım Şahan, SE Celik - Physiotherapy theory and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Successful use of prostheses after lower-limb amputation (LLA) depends on
undergoing physiotherapy and rehabilitation both physically and psychologically. The aim of …

Non-pharmacological pain management

A El Geziry, Y Toble, F Al Kadhi… - Pain management in …, 2018 - books.google.com
Non-pharmacological pain therapy refers to interventions that do not involve the use of
medications to treat pain. The goals of non-pharmacological interventions are to decrease …

The stochastic entanglement and phantom motor execution hypotheses: a theoretical framework for the origin and treatment of phantom limb pain

M Ortiz-Catalan - Frontiers in neurology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Phantom limb pain (PLP) is a debilitating condition common after amputation that can
considerably hinder patients' quality of life. Several treatments have reported promising …