Chronic pain exerts an enormous personal and economic burden, affecting more than 30%
of people worldwide according to some studies. Unlike acute pain, which carries survival …

Chronic pain is not simply a temporal continuum of acute pain. Studies on functional
plasticity in neural circuits of pain have provided mechanistic insights and linked various …

This manuscript reviews historical and recent studies that focus on supplementary sensory
feedback for use in upper limb prostheses. It shows that the inability of many studies to …

Following amputation, most amputees still report feeling the missing limb and often describe
these feelings as excruciatingly painful. Phantom limb sensations (PLS) are useful while …

Following arm amputation the region that represented the missing hand in primary
somatosensory cortex (S1) becomes deprived of its primary input, resulting in changed …

Methods: This review aims to provide an interdisciplinary overview of recent evidence-based
and clinical knowledge. Results: The scientific evidence for best practice is weak and …

The role of cortical activity in generating and abolishing chronic pain is increasingly
emphasized in the clinical community. Perhaps the most striking example of this is the …

Objective: To compare the effects of traditional mirror therapy (MT), a patient-centred
teletreatment (PACT) and sensomotor exercises without a mirror on phantom limb pain …

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 …

Background and objective This systematic, rapid review aimed to critically appraise and
synthesize the recent literature (2014–2019) evaluating the incidence and prevalence of …