Phantom limb pain (PLP) is a form of chronic neuropathic pain that responds poorly to treatment interventions derived from the neuroanatomic understanding of pain and analgesia. Several new psychological and behavioral treatments that have proven more effective have been explained by invoking neural plasticity as their mechanism of action. Other novel treatments that are based on an "energy med...

Phantom limb pain appears where an amputated limb used to be and is often excruciating and almost impossible to treat. Recently, two experiments on hand amputees in the neuroscience area have shown that if a patient has the visual illusion of his phantom hand in a way that he is able to move it, the phantom pain can decrease. We propose a new augmented reality system aiming to experiment this i...

Century. However, it was Silas Weir Mitchell, a Neurologist who first used the term ‘phantom’ in fiction rather than in scientific literature in 1871. Lord Nelson is reputed to have said that his phantom was a direct proof of the existence of the soul. If an arm can survive physical annihilation, why not the entire person? With recent scientific developments, Neuro-physiologists and Neuro-psych...

Following amputation, individuals ubiquitously report experiencing lingering sensations of their missing limb. While phantom sensations can be innocuous, they are often manifested as painful. Phantom limb pain (PLP) is notorious for being difficult to monitor and treat. A major challenge in PLP management is the difficulty in assessing PLP symptoms, given the physical absence of the affected bo...

Diagnosis is essentially the appraisal of the nature of a disease, based on the study of signs and symptoms. Patients with chronic oral or facial pain often present a diagnostic challenge to the practitioner. This paper is on the diagnosis and management of a case of chronic pain in the maxillary anterior region. The final diagnosis was made as phantom tooth pain. This case report illustrates t...

Phantom Limb Pain (PLP) is an excruciating type of pain that gives a sensation of the continued presence of an amputated limb. Physicians have used many methods and drugs to treat PLP. We present a case of continued sciatic nerve block performed for PLP that developed after a traumatic amputation. We conclude that infusing a local anesthetic via a perineural sciatic catheter effectively treated...