UCT’s Dr Katleho Limakatso hosted a symposium on how to advance post-amputation pain management in South Africa.

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The brain holds a "map" of the body that remains unchanged even after a limb has been amputated, contrary to the prevailing view that it rearranges itself to compensate for the loss, according to new ...

David Boe (left) and veteran Judy Lee Baldwin-Mohn during a session of “limb simulator therapy.” (Chris Pacheco / VA Puget Sound Health Care System Photo) Judy Lee Baldwin-Mohn hasn’t played soccer ...

FRIDAY, Nov. 30, 2018 -- Climbing enthusiast Jim Ewing lost his left foot in the aftermath of a 50-foot fall off a Cayman Islands cliff. But Ewing is scaling rock walls again with the aid of a robotic ...

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A team of researchers based in Italy and Switzerland discovered that amputees can feel temperature changes in their phantom limb. For instance, if there’s a heat source pressed to the residual limb, ...

Despite its name, phantom pain is a real, painful sensation that some amputee patients feel in a part of their body that no longer exists. The part of the body that is removed through amputation ...

Phantom limb pain is a chronic and often debilitating condition in which individuals experience pain sensations in a limb that has been partially or completely amputated. The condition affects a ...

An amputee receives mirror therapy. Source: Donna Miles/Air Force Photos By Alexander Metz Searching for Explanations In recent years, and particularly with the advent of things like neuroimaging, ...

“R.N.” was 57 when she came to see Paul McGeoch and V.S. Ramachandran at the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California San Diego. She had a constant burning sensation in her right ...