David Boe (left) and veteran Judy Lee Baldwin-Mohn during a session of “limb simulator therapy.” (Chris Pacheco / VA Puget Sound Health Care System Photo) Judy Lee Baldwin-Mohn hasn’t played soccer ...

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 ...

A prosthetic leg that can feel helped two men walk faster, more smoothly and with greater confidence. The artificial leg, outfitted with sensors that detect pressure and motion, also curbed phantom ...

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 ...

A leg prosthesis that works with neural implants to restore sensory feedback can improve walking speed and confidence while reducing fatigue and phantom limb pain in above-knee leg amputees, new ...

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 ...

After losing a lower leg, Savo Panic received a prosthetic limb that helped restore movement. But prostheses are imperfect, and he suffered tremendous "phantom" leg pain. Now, European scientists say ...

Justine’s story is not uncommon in the chronic pain world, but her therapy experience is both inspirational and informative. She is a 40-something woman whose left leg was amputated below the knee ...

Patients with traumatic amputations resulting from land mine explosions show significant improvement in phantom limb pain after repetitive treatments of high-frequency transcranial stimulation (rTMS), ...

Virtual Reality (VR) can relieve the sensation of phantom limb pain, report researchers. A new test shows that VR technology can trick the amputee’s brain into thinking that it is still in control of ...

I have a vague memory of learning about the brain and pain in the early seventies when I was an undergraduate student. Pain gateways in the brain had something to do with our individual pain ...