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Entries from August 2009

Exercise Your Phantom Limb To Decrease Pain

August 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Exercise Your Phantom Limb To Decrease Pain

What can you do if you have pain in a part of your body that is no longer there – in other words, phantom pain? Unfortunately, phantom sensations are fairly common after amputation or trauma, but previously, treatment was not very effective. Ramachandran, a neuroscientist at UCSD, made a breakthrough by suggesting that patients “trick” their brains into […]

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