'Mirror therapy' reduces chronic phantom pain
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 09:31
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- A team of researchers led by Stefan Seidel from the University Department of Neurology at the MedUni Vienna has demonstrated that and how mirror therapy, as it is known, can help patients reduce the symptoms of phantom pain following limb amputations. This is achieved by stimulating a "motor network in the brain that "substitutes for" the original motor centre.