Where Does It Hurt? With PLP, It Depends
The Minneapolis VA Health Care System is recruiting amputees to participate in an innovative study of phantom limb pain, using ...
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Study Seeks Custom Cures for Phantom Limb Pain
The experience of phantom limb pain varies from one amputee to the next. An innovative study is looking for volunteers ...
Tripping the Switch on PLP
If you experience phantom limb pain and want to help test a possible treatment, the UCSD Psychedelic Health and Research ...
Mapping Phantom Limb Pain Within the Brain
Neuroscientists have found objective biomarkers of chronic pain from inside the brain of individuals suffering from phantom limb pain (PLP) ...
Limb Loss, Psychedelics, Healing, and Ceremony
Less than a year after Dan Edmondson lost both legs, a peyote healing ceremony cured his phantom limb pain. But ...
Can LSD Cure Phantom Limb Pain for Amputees?
The theory that psychedelics might help alleviate phantom limb pain isn’t new. It’s decades old—and the earliest research dates back ...
Low-Dose Naltrexone Holds Promise for Relief of Phantom Limb Pain
A spate of new studies suggest that very small doses of naltrexone can alleviate phantom limb pain and other forms of ...
Can Good Vibes Tame Phantom Limb Pain for Amputees?
Vibration therapy doesn’t blunt every amputee's phantom limb pain, but there have been promising outcomes. TheraV hopes to achieve more ...
New Research Shows Potential for Phantom Motor Execution
Phantom motor execution is an experimental treatment that involves virtual reality and augmented reality to reduce phantom limb pain for ...
TMR Makes Rapid Strides for Lower-Limb Amputees
A consensus is forming around targeted muscle reinnervation's potential benefits for leg amputees, including those with concurrent health challenges.
New Wrinkles In Phantom Pain Treatment
The first annual International Conference on Phantom Limb Pain, heavyweight researchers from three continents presented their findings on novel treatments ...
The Trouble With Treatments for Phantom Limb Pain
Phantom limb pain is a real physiological condition. So why do we tolerate mystery and myth when it comes to ...
FAQ: Phantom Limb Pain and Psilocybin
Psilocybin, the active chemical in psychedelic mushrooms, has shown the potential to curb phantom limb pain in amputees. Here’s a ...
Amputee Coalition Conference: 6 Don’t-Miss Sessions
The Amputee Coalition has released the preliminary schedule for 2020 National Conference, and we’re pleased to find a number of ...
Phantom Pain Follow-up: Five Things to Know About PNS
On the heels of our article earlier this month about peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS), we had the opportunity to talk ...
When The Phantom Strikes
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