[PDF][PDF] Current understanding of phantom pain and its treatment

CJ Culp, S Abdi - Pain physician, 2022 - painphysicianjournal.com
Background: Phantom limb pain (PLP), defined as a painful sensation in a portion of the
body that has been amputated, occurs in upwards of 80% of limb amputees and can …

Making sense of phantom limb pain

HR Schone, CI Baker, J Katz, L Nikolajsen… - Journal of Neurology …, 2022 - jnnp.bmj.com
Phantom limb pain (PLP) impacts the majority of individuals who undergo limb amputation.
The PLP experience is highly heterogenous in its quality, intensity, frequency and severity …

Global prevalence and factors associated with workplace violence against nursing students: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression

FBM Mohamed, LJ Cheng, XEC Chia… - Aggression and violent …, 2024 - Elsevier
Workplace violence encompasses physical violence, verbal abuse, sexual harassment,
bullying, and threatening behaviors. Reviews indicate that it is widely prevalent among …

The homeostatic homunculus: rethinking deprivation-triggered reorganisation

D Muret, TR Makin - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Homeostatic mechanisms may sustain persistent representation of a missing
hand.•Recent evidence indicates distributed latent activity across the homunculus.• …

Integration of proprioception in upper limb prostheses through non-invasive strategies: a review

ED Papaleo, M D'Alonzo, F Fiori, V Piombino… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Proprioception plays a key role in moving our body dexterously and effortlessly.
Nevertheless, the majority of investigations evaluating the benefits of providing …

A systematic review of the prevalence of postamputation and chronic neuropathic pain associated with combat injury in military personnel

A Kumar, N Soliman, Z Gan, P Cullinan, J Vollert… - Pain, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Combat trauma can lead to widespread tissue damage and limb loss. This may result in
chronic neuropathic and post amputation pain, including phantom limb pain (PLP) and …

Altered intra-and inter-network brain functional connectivity in upper-limb amputees revealed through independent component analysis

BB Bao, HY Zhu, HF Wei, J Li, ZB Wang… - Neural Regeneration …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Although cerebral neuroplasticity following amputation has been observed, little is
understood about how network-level functional reorganization occurs in the brain following …

Pain and Reorganization after Amputation: Is Interoceptive Prediction a Key?

T Weiss, H Koehler, I Croy - The Neuroscientist, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
There is an ongoing discussion on the relevance of brain reorganization following
amputation for phantom limb pain. Recent attempts to provide explanations for seemingly …

Effectiveness of graded motor imagery protocol in phantom limb pain in amputed patient: Protocol of a randomized clinical trial

S Rierola-Fochs, JA Merchán-Baeza… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Objective The aim of this study is to analyse the effectiveness of the Graded Motor Imagery
(GraMI) protocol in phantom limb pain in amputee patients. Materials and methods A …

The efficacy of graded motor imagery and its components on phantom limb pain and disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis

K Limakatso, AG Cashin, S Williams… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction Graded Motor Imagery (GMI) is a non-invasive and inexpensive
therapy used to treat Phantom Limb Pain (PLP) by sequentially activating motor networks in …