A prosthetic leg that can feel helped two men walk faster, more smoothly and with greater confidence. The artificial leg, outfitted with sensors that detect pressure and motion, also curbed phantom ...

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 ...

Years after people lose arms or legs to wartime injuries or in car accidents, they can still feel them hurt or tingle. Doctors don't fully understand this "phantom limb pain," but researchers at the ...

A leg prosthesis that works with neural implants to restore sensory feedback can improve walking speed and confidence while reducing fatigue and phantom limb pain in above-knee leg amputees, new ...

Brain Map Explains Phantom Limb Pain, Hints At Improved Prosthetics By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Aug. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — “Phantom limb” pain has been a curious aftereffect of ...

October 11, 2011 (Hamburg, Germany) — In the future, amputees might merely repeatedly watch a virtual version of their lost limb in motion to be rid of their phantom limb pain. Researchers believe ...

Local veterans living with an amputation are getting a chance to use virtual reality in a way they likely had never imagined. A clinical trial of a therapy to alleviate phantom limb pain is underway ...

Easing phantom limb pain can be as simple as looking in the mirror. Scientists who have mapped how mirror therapy changes the brain may now be able to predict just how much treatment will ease a ...

A reliable method to treat post-amputation pain remains elusive, but a new Northwestern Medicine study conducted in collaboration with Ukrainian physicians suggests that hydrodissection—a simple ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Up to 80 percent of amputees and a significant portion of paraplegics experience phantom pain, which can be a debilitating experience. A new procedure is giving patients hope to ...

The Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UC San Diego received a $1.3 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to fund a clinical trial investigating the therapeutic ...