Thursday, April 17, 2008

The Mirror Cure for Phantom Pain: Scientific American

The Mirror Cure for Phantom Pain
Phantom limbs (an often painful sensation that an amputated limb is still part of the body) affect approximately 40 to 80 percent of all amputees. Lorimer Moseley, a researcher at Oxford, looks at a recent study that used mirrors to erase this phantom pain.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-mirror-cure

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