Helping amputees and phantom limb pain

ME AND MY MIRROR

Treating phantom limb pain with free mirrors and mirror therapy ...globally.

Outreach

Giardia Lamblia

By on Mar 15, 2013 in Outreach

If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itGiardia Lamblia. Can’t seem to shake them. Tenacious little devils, and the cure (in this case Tinidazole) is, at the moment, worse than the pestilence: headache, neckache, vertigo, cramps, bloating, trembling, extreme lethargy. It goes on. At least for the moment I’m not enduring ‘explosive diarrhea’ which can be a real...

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Gotta look close

By on Mar 15, 2013 in Outreach

If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it Gotta look close, this poor little fellow lost his leg way up high by the hip. Cancer. He’s holding on to his nub. Seems to be doing well too. At the Catholic Mission,...

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A letter to David Butler

By on Mar 12, 2013 in Outreach

If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itMy hus has suffered from PLP for 25 yrs immed after an accident which left his L arm paralyzed with limited innervation (none from the elbow down and partial in bicep only). He’s given up on everything…nothing works for him. I rigged a mirror box for him to try. He didn’t get immed relief but feels his left hand for the 1st time in 25 years! feels like he’s “working it”. We will cont to do therapy in hopes that his pain will lessen. I am grateful for your research and insight. Thank you!!!! A letter to David Butler, neurologist @ NOI, Adelaide. It works,...

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Almost all people who have lost a limb

By on Mar 8, 2013 in Outreach

If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it ‘Almost all people who have lost a limb have some sensation that it is still there, and it’s thought that around 80% of amputees experience some level of pain associated with the missing limb. For some the pain is so great it is hugely debilitating,’ says first author Dr Tamar Makin of the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB) at Oxford...

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