Posts Tagged ‘phantom limb’
Walter Reed Army Medical Center reported
Consider "Mirror Therapy" for Phantom Limb Pain in the ICU ... Investigators at Walter Reed Army Medical Center have reported that mirror therapyfor phantom limb pain was strikingly effective in a randomized, ... www.internalmedicinenews.com/.../5697ded167.html
Alternative Treatment for Stroke
Mirror Therapy | Mental Movement Therapy The Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehab also published a study in 2007, comparing the use of mirror therapy with traditional PT to a group that ... www.rehabafterstroke.com/mirror-therapy
Video testimonial mirror therapy works
Mark constantino testifies mirror therapy works. Mark was reluctant to try mirror box therapy, but now testifies to its effects. Mark story start about 3 1/2 min in, but watch the whole video it also demonstrates a new thinking of mirror therapy for double amputee with the help of the physiotherapist.
Tricking the Brain to Feel No Pain: It’s Done with Mirrors
Tricking the Brain to Feel No Pain: It's Done with Mirrors - Video ... Amputees often suffer from phantom-limb pain -- feeling pain in a limb that is no longer there. An unusual therapy involving only a mirror is providing. Great video with new thinking on mirror box therapy. Mirror Box Therapy is usually used by Uni-lateral amputee, In this [...]
Rethinking stroke therapy
Until recently scientists thought that when a region of the brain was damaged, its function was lost forever. Stroke patients who couldn't use an injured arm were taught to dress and bathe with their good arm. But sophisticated imaging tests of the brain at work have since revealed that it can reorganize itself after injury so that when nerve [...]
Back to Basics
Here’s the NOVA episode about Dr. Ramachandran’s discovery of mirror therapy as a treatment for phantom limb pain. Incredibly fascinating episode, mirror therapy starts around 3:30 min but watch it all. This video is for everybody its an easy to understand video on how the brain works. Nova - Secrets Of The Mind Amazing neurological [...]
Mirror therapy used for stroke victims
NBC2 report on Mirror Box Therapy, watch this great video of 10 year stroke survivor regaining function in this lift arm and hand. "When we go away from the mirror, we're finding a ten to twenty percent increase in performance," says Dr. Jax.
Ramachandran on ‘Unlearning’ Pain
Mirror Box Therapy... is now widely accepted — not just for phantom limb pain, but for chronic pain of other types — and works in 70% to 80% of appropriate cases. Mind Reading: Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran on 'Unlearning' Pain In the 1990s, Dr. Ramachandran devised mirror therapy to help amputees suffering from phantom limb pain [...]
Effect of Mirror Therapy on Recovery of Upper – KoreaMed – Basic …
METHOD: Fourty subacute hemiplegic stroke patients (onset <6 months) were enrolled and randomly assigned to either the mirror therapy (MT, n=19), ... www.koreamed.org/SearchBasic.php?RID=0041JKARM/... Abstract OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of mirror therapy on recovery of upper limb function and strength in subacute hemiplegia after [...]