Phantom limb pain affects nearly 40 percent of amputees, often persisting despite medications and therapy. Reconstructive surgeon Shaun Mendenhall, MD, outlines why surgical techniques are now ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Up to 80 percent of amputees and a significant portion of paraplegics experience phantom pain, which can be a debilitating experience. A new procedure is giving patients hope to ...

Up to 90 percent of people who have lost a limb continue to have pain where the arm or leg used to be. It's called phantom limb pain, and it can be debilitating. James Wolf lost part of his right leg ...

Stimulation of the spinal cord can alleviate "phantom" pain for people who have had a limb amputated, suggests a new study. Researchers found an electrical pulse delivered to the spinal cord of ...

BioWave® Corp., a leader in non-invasive neuromodulation for pain management, recently announced the interim results of two studies at the 2025 American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain ...

DENVER, Colo. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Imagine waking up one day and feeling a sharp pain in your foot, only to realize it had been amputated years ago, or that you lost the use of your legs in an ...

April 5, 2011 (Washington, DC) — Sympathetic nerve block may be an effective strategy for relieving refractory phantom pain associated with chronic preamputation pain, according to results of a case ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Failure of mirror therapy to relieve phantom limb pain may often be the result of insufficient length of treatment. The more severe the pain, the longer the time required, a new ...

After an amputation, some patients may feel pain in their residual limbs. Post-amputation pain, categorized as phantom pain or stump pain, can be a challenging condition to treat. Phantom pain is ...

Phantom limb pain (PLP) and post‐amputation pain present significant challenges that affect the lives of amputees worldwide. PLP is characterised by the perception of pain in a limb that is no longer ...