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Phantom Limb Pain in Amputees Helped by Mirror Therapy - US Study
By Lady Sharon
The results of the clinical trials were published this past fall in the New England Journal of Medicine. Source: US Department of Defense. Learn more about Mirror Box Therapy. Lady Sharon, Scribe of the Knights of the Pain Table News.
Knights of the Pain Table - http://knightsofthepaintable.wordpress.com

CTVglobemedia Inc Canada
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071121/phantomlimb_071121/20071121?hub=Health

The New England Journal of Medicine
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/21/2206

Stroke News

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031008064458.htm

http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200611/000020061106A0339881.php

http://www.intjrehabilres.com/pt/re/intjrr/abstract.00004356-200706000-00015.htm;jsessionid=LLMQ4nXJQ22PpSyYHyZNLvjppk76H9ZwZykCgBGGMcXGx7HQRRTL!523807009!181195628!8091!-1

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http://www.pubmed.com/ search on medline using the terms ("mirror box therapy" or "mirror visualization therapy")

The University of Groningen
http://share.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/root2/2007/Mirrbotha/

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_box

Brachial Plexus Injury Group

http://www.tbpiukgroup.homestead.com/index_1.html

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RSD / CRPS groups & Sites

UK based
http://www.rsd-crps.co.uk/

USA based
http://www.rsds.org/index2.html
http://www.rsdcare.org/index.html

Australasia
http://www.ozrsd.org/web/main.htm

Phantom Limb Pain

http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/research/phantomlimb/phantomlimb.php

USA
http://www.amputee-online.com/amputee/phantom.html
http://www.waramps.ca/nac/phantom.html

UK
http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/research/phantomlimb/phantomlimb.php
http://www.23nlpeople.com/Phantom.html
http://www.amputeesnortheast.org.uk/
http://www.limbless-association.org/
http://www.oldham-amputeegroup.co.uk/

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Stroke

UK
http://www.stroke.org.uk/
http://www.differentstrokes.co.uk/

Others

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031008064458.htm
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200611/000020061106A0339881.php
http://www.intjrehabilres.com/pt/re/intjrr/abstract.00004356-200706000-00015.htm;jsessionid=LLMQ4nXJQ22PpSyYHyZNLvjppk76H9ZwZykCgBGGMcXGx7HQRRTL!523807009!181195628!8091!-1

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Mirror box therapy added to cognitive behavioural therapy in three ...

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hemiparesis after stroke, mirror therapy has been used in. providing visual feedback to reduce ... therapy, we decided to add mirror box therapy to CBT in ...
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The Neurotopian: Mirror Box Therapy - Part IV

1 Dec 2007 ... There are some preliminary results that show that even in stroke - at least part of the paralysis ... Labels: English, Mirror Box Therapy ...
neurotopian.blogspot.com/2007/12/mirror-box-therapy-part-iv.html - 71k - Cached - Similar pages

Pain and Performance Final Rev3
By Mike T Nelson(Mike T Nelson)
By using a mirror box, you can create an image (from the good limb) to appear where the lost limb would normally be in space. This can "trick" the brain into believing there is a limb there, and many times the pain will diminish (1). ...
Mike T Nelson Ramblings - http://miketnelson.blogspot.com/

Influencing from the Power of Your Mind
By Kevin Hogan(Kevin Hogan)
For the second task, simulating, for example, the left arm moving, the investigators had the participant move the right arm around in the mirror-box workspace, resulting in a reflection of the affected left limb moving about ...
Influencing Human Behavior - http://influencebehavior.blogspot.com/

Phantom Pain and Guantonomo
By Frank Lloyd Wrong(Frank Lloyd Wrong)
Turns out, oddly enough, that you can use something called a "mirror box" to treat phantom pain. It is something of an accidental miracle, really. How long have we had mirrors, and how long have we had people with missing limbs? ...
Frank Lloyd Wrong - http://flw.livejournal.com/

An Investigation into the performance of a Virtual Mirror Box for
This would appear to be why the mirror box is so successful for some, yet ... They can then experience a virtual mirror box by wearing a data glove and a ...

The Itch - Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory ...
By melsreallifedrama
With daily use of the mirror box over weeks, patients sensed their phantom limbs actually shrink into their stumps and, in several instances, completely vanish. Researchers at WalterReedArmyMedicalCenter recently published the ...
Mel's Real Life Drama - http://melsreallifedrama.wordpress.com

The problem with my 'brain and mind' tag - the mind is not in the ...
By John Gordon(John Gordon)
That's how the mirror-box therapies Gawande describes work, and presumably that's how exercise therapy works for chronic fatigue syndrome (albeit both imperfectly)... Ok, I have to also thank my son, who has an extremely tight ...
Gordon's Notes - http://notes.kateva.org/

Plasticities
By Reya Mellicker(Reya Mellicker)
For people who have phantom limb syndrome, a mirror box that makes it look like the patient has both limbs will convince the brain to stop sending pain signals. One woman who had an incurable itch was cured using mirrors. ...
The Gold Puppy - http://thegoldpuppy.blogspot.com/

Itching
By matt(matt)
With daily use of the mirror box over weeks, patients sensed their phantom limbs actually shrink into their stumps and, in several instances, completely vanish. Researchers at WalterReedArmyMedicalCenter recently published the ...
Esse Quam Videri - http://undegaussable.blogspot.com/

The pain is all in your head
By John Gordon(John Gordon)
That's how the mirror-box therapies Gawande describes work, and presumably that's how exercise therapy works for chronic fatigue syndrome (albeit both imperfectly). We'll get better at this 'rewiring by programmed experience' techniques ...
Gordon's Notes - http://notes.kateva.org/

ATUL GAWANDE
With daily use of the mirror box over weeks, patients sensed their phantom limbs actually shrink into their stumps and, in several instances, completely vanish. Researchers at WalterReedArmyMedicalCenter recently published the ...
orphanage - http://orphanage.spaces.live.com/

She told me my arm was gone. We argued about that for five minutes ...
San Diego Reader - San Diego,CA,USA
In the case of a man whose phantom fist feels clenched, the mirror box creates the illusion that the clenched fist can open. By working with the box, ...
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The Tale of the Phantom Itch
By naomimimi
While the mirror box is an inexpensive treatment, virtual reality programs can also help treat the pain. Check it out here:. Anyone have an experience with either one of these treatments? I'd love to hear about if and how it worked, ...
Disaboom - http://www.disaboom.com/Blogs/

more itch
By drfrenchfry
Gawande explains how the brain makes a "best guess" that the amputated limb is still there, but in a painful position, and how looking at it through the mirror box adds new information into the whole picture, allowing more information ...
- http://drfrenchfry.wordpress.com

(Fascinating article from) The New Yorker: The Itch
By The Flanders Pigeon Murderer(The Flanders Pigeon Murderer)
With daily use of the mirror box over weeks, patients sensed their phantom limbs actually shrink into their stumps and, in several instances, completely vanish. Researchers at WalterReedArmyMedicalCenter recently published the ...
l'histoire � moi - http://vorspeise.livejournal.com/

It comes from many sides at once . . . or does it?
By Big Frank Dickinson(Big Frank Dickinson)
He even sites the same experiments mentioned in Gawande's article: a therapeutic devise invented by the neuroscientist VS Ramachandran - mirror box therapy to rid patients of phantom limb pain. There are more, but Big Frank has already ...
What it is! - http://bigfrankdickinson.blogspot.com/

New Yorker Article about the power of our Body Maps
By Theresa Garcia(Theresa Garcia)
With daily use of the mirror box over weeks, patients sensed their phantom limbs actually shrink into their stumps and, in several instances, completely vanish. Researchers at WalterReedArmyMedicalCenter recently published the ...
Rosen Method Movement Training - http://ttygarcia.livejournal.com/

Itchy? Try starting with the man in the mirror
By http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailydiagnosis...
Army scientists are treating soldiers with phantom limb pain with a mirror box: the service members stick their surviving limb through a hole in a box containing a mirror, then move "both" arms. Seeing "what appears to be movement of ...
MyDailyApple News Alert: Personal... - http://www.mydailyapple.com/news

My Reaction to Mirror Box and Phantom Limb Pain #1
By amber(amber)
The mirror box is a wooden box that has exactly ninety degree angles and a mirror right in the middle of it. The mirror acts as an allusion of having a limb. The allusion was very convincing. This box is like therapy for those who ...
Amber's Anatomy - http://crazy80sgirl.blogspot.com/

YouTube - Phantom Limb Pain and the Mirror Box #3
May 12, 2008 ... Andrew T. Austin (http://www.23NLPeople.com) discusses the phenomenum of "remapping" and the relevence to treatment with the mirror box.

Mind over Matter in the New Yorker

By aimai(Tom Hilton)
When I mentioned that he might want to try the mirror-box treatment, he agreed. "I have a mirror upstairs," he said. He brought a cheval glass down to the living room, and I had him stand with his chest against the side of it, ...
If I Ran the Zoo - http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/

Yes, it's all true
By From cooking mushrooms to picking up a snake?(From cooking mushrooms to picking up a snake?)
Du Rais gives him a hastily constructed mirror box to help with the phantom pain, awkwardly shows him how to use it. It doesn't seem very scientific, but she claims it works by retraining the brain through visual input. ...
Underwater Ripples - http://anna-bird.livejournal.com/

Are We Free?
Valayanur Ramachandran takes this example one step further as he illustrates with his mirror box the healing/removal of phantom limbs by rewiring the brain. Not just genetics, but a conscious choice and effort on the part of the ...
Ecclectica - http://tyragan.spaces.live.com/

Mirror, mirror in the box
By rdeck(rdeck)
After some practice with this technique, the pain went away permanently. If this can be applied to an arm or leg or hand disabled by a stroke ... Say a prayer for me, wish me luck, or knock on wood. I just ordered a mirror box from a ...
Deck: Cyber Curmudgeon - http://rdeck.livejournal.com/

Adult Neuroplasticity
Ramachandran's Mirror Box that is a cardboard box with a mirror in it, the patient places both their physical limb and phantom limb into it. By moving their physical limb it convinces the subject that the phantom limb is moving and ...
Ecclectica - http://tyragan.spaces.live.com/

Vilayanur Ramachandran - TED talk response.
By eira(eira)
He called this the mirror box. What this was was a cardboard box with a mirror in the middle. The man puts his phantom limb in one side, and the real limb in the other side. What happens is, Vilayanur Ramachandran tells his patient to ...
eiraaaaaaaaaa's blog - http://his-eiral.blogspot.com/

NEJM -- Mirror Therapy for Phantom Limb Pain
Nov 22, 2007 ... Correspondence from The New England Journal of Medicine -- Mirror Therapy for Phantom Limb Pain.

The Mind Has a Body of Its Own
By Surinder Kahai
In one experiment, the amputees put their remaining hand in front of a mirror in a device called as the mirror box (image). This device tricks an amputee's brain into thinking that the mirror image is actually another working limb. ...
Leading Virtually - http://www.leadingvirtually.com

Virtual Massage Provides Relief For Amputees
Switched - New York,NY,USA
... several amputees were given these virtual massages, which involved setting up a "mirror box" that reflected the image of the massaged hand on one arm ...
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Virtual massage 'could relieve phantom limb pain for amputees'
This is London - London,England,UK
Ramachandran and his colleague and wife Diane Rogers-Ramachandran used a "mirror box" - a tool that creates the visual illusion of two hands for people who ...
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Indian origin neurologist recommends virtual massage for pain ...
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
In a study, Ramachandran and his wife Diane Rogers-Ramachandran used a "mirror box" that could create the visual illusion of two hands for people who ...
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New Ways to Relieve Phantom Pain in Amputees
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
In his first test, he used a device he had created called a mirror box. An amputee puts their remaining hand in front of the mirror and their brain is ...
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Virtual massage 'could relieve phantom limb pain for amputees'
By Amatsu Scribbler(Your Teacher)
Ramachandran and his colleague and wife Diane Rogers-Ramachandran used a "mirror box" - a tool that creates the visual illusion of two hands for people who actually only have one. By placing an amputee's arms either side of a mirror ...
Herbal Remedies and Complementary... - http://www.complementarytherapynews.co.uk/

The Miraculous Mirror Box
By bassam(bassam)
He created a simple mirror box where those who had lost a hand or arm could put their remaining arm in the box and see both that arm and a reflection of it on the opposite side of the box. The result was that patients saw two normal ...
bassam - http://bassamgravitte.blog.com/

The Miraculous Mirror Box
By Jennifer
By Gary Kurz Scientists have long documented a condition known as "phantom limb", which occurs in about 80 percent of amputees and a smaller percentage of people born without limbs. Phantom limb is the sensation that a missing limb is. ...
kelsi - http://kelsihorton.blogs.friendster.com/kelsi/

Haptic Vest
By Matthias Weinberger(dermoneuromodulator "neuroplastician")
I've written about this in my Mirror Box Treatment series. As Bach-Y-Rita found out our brain doesn't depend on visual feedback alone - touch is "created equal". ;-) So for areas of the body that we can't see directly with our own eyes ...
Neurotonics: a PT team blog - http://neurotonics.blogspot.com/