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To the Editor: Phantom limb pain occurs in at least 90% of limb amputees.¹ Such pain may be induced by a conflict between visual feedback and proprioceptive representations of the amputated limb.² Thus, illusions or imagery of movement of the amputated limb might alleviate phantom limb pain. Mirror therapy has been used with some success in patients who have had a hand or an arm amputated.³ Since the critical component of mirror therapy may be the induction of limb imagery, we conducted a randomized, sham-controlled trial of mirror therapy versus imagery therapy involving patients with phantom limb pain after the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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