Tag: phantom limb pain

Neuroscientists have found objective biomarkers of chronic pain from inside the brain of individuals suffering from phantom limb pain (PLP) ...

Less than a year after Dan Edmondson lost both legs, a peyote healing ceremony cured his phantom limb pain. But ...

Clinical trials are now underway to investigate psychedelics’ effects on phantom limb pain, depression, PTSD, opioid addiction, and other amputee ...

The concept of predictive coding suggests the brain builds models of perception to predict future input. When its predictions don’t ...

The theory that psychedelics might help alleviate phantom limb pain isn’t new. It’s decades old—and the earliest research dates back ...

A spate of new studies suggest that very small doses of naltrexone can alleviate phantom limb pain and other forms of ...

Volunteering for amputee research is a tremendous gift to the limb-loss community. And the perks can be pretty good, too. ...

Vibration therapy doesn’t blunt every amputee's phantom limb pain, but there have been promising outcomes. TheraV hopes to achieve more ...

Phantom motor execution is an experimental treatment that involves virtual reality and augmented reality to reduce phantom limb pain for ...

A consensus is forming around targeted muscle reinnervation's potential benefits for leg amputees, including those with concurrent health challenges.

The first annual International Conference on Phantom Limb Pain, heavyweight researchers from three continents presented their findings on novel treatments ...

Phantom limb pain is a real physiological condition. So why do we tolerate mystery and myth when it comes to ...

Psilocybin, the active chemical in psychedelic mushrooms, has shown the potential to curb phantom limb pain in amputees. Here’s a ...

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