Rerouting nerves during amputation reduces phantom limb pain before it starts

Friday, December 28, 2018 - 17:40 in Health & Medicine

Doctors have found that a surgery to reroute amputated nerves, called targeted muscle reinnervation, or TMR, can reduce or prevent phantom or residual limb pain from ever occurring in amputee patients who receive the procedure at the time of amputation.

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