Open AccessVirtual Reality Treatment Displaying the Missing Leg Improves Phantom Limb Pain: A Small Clinical Trial
Author(s) -
Elisabetta Ambron,
Laurel J. Buxbaum,
Alexander L. Miller,
Harrison Stoll,
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker,
H. Branch Coslett
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
neurorehabilitation and neural repair
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1552-6844
pISSN - 1545-9683
DOI - 10.1177/15459683211054164
Subject(s) - phantom limb , physical medicine and rehabilitation , amputation , virtual reality , phantom limb pain , physical therapy , medicine , randomized controlled trial , psychology , computer science , surgery , human–computer interaction
Phantom limb pain (PLP) is a common and in some cases debilitating consequence of upper- or lower-limb amputation for which current treatments are inadequate.