POST AMPUTATION PAIN

Pain after amputation

Amputation of a body part, whether as a result of trauma or surgical intervention, is almost always associated with awareness of, and sensations referred to, the missing body part. These sensations were first noted by Ambroise Pare, a French military surgeon in the middle of the 16th century. Mitchel first used the term `phantom' in 1871 from his observations and medical studies of the American...

The Effectiveness of Mirror Therapy in the Treatment of Post-Amputation Phantom Limb Pain

Background: There are an estimated 1.6 million people living with a limb amputation in the U.S. Approximately 50-80% of amputees suffer phantom limb pain (PLP), which is pain felt in the absence of a limb that may manifest as stabbing, burning, throbbing or in some other fashion. Mirror therapy has been proposed as an alternative therapy for the treatment of PLP, but its efficacy as an interven...

The Effects of Sensory Input and Concentration on Post-amputation Phantom Limb Pain.

Pulsed radiofrequency of lumbar dorsal root ganglia for chronic post-amputation stump pain.

BACKGROUND Chronic pain following limb amputations is now a recognized chronic pain syndrome usually described in a combination of phantom and stump pain. Both stump and phantom pain continue to be significant treatment challenges. If pharmacotherapy does not provide effective analgesia for stump pain, a clinician has interventional options that frequently give only transient benefit, or have a...

Amputation and phantom limb pain: a pain-prevention model.

Within the figure of more than 200,000 surgical amputations performed in the United States each year lies another--70% of patients experience phantom limb pain after the procedure, and 50% still experience phantom pain 5 years after surgery. Patients describe burning, stabbing, twisting, cramping, or throbbing pains in the missing part. Adding to the patient's and the anesthesia professional's ...