This week we are going to discuss a controversial and useful method for treating chronic pain which has been used extensively in land mine infested countries for the pain of an amputated limb. The … ...

A visual feedback technique called mirror box therapy can help alleviate hand pain in patients with arthritis (Laura Case, abstract 72.03, see summary attached).

Mirror Box Therapy. By far, the most well-known treatment for phantom limb pain is known as the mirror box. Developed in the early 1990s by neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, ...

Mirror box therapy can help some amputees. The box, which provides a reflection of the person’s intact limb, can create the illusion of the missing limb, sending a message to the brain and alleviating ...

Mirror exposure therapy is a relatively new psychological approach in which participants observe themselves in a full-length mirror and talk about their bodies with the guidance of a therapist ...

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Some friends and I discussed V.S. Ramachandran’s famous “mirror box&# ...

The use of mirror box therapy is sometimes useful for phantom pain in which the patient looks at the reflection of the remaining limb in a mirror and performs therapeutic exercises, ...

Peterson previously tried mirror box therapy but found no relief. For some people, the pain can be debilitating. “This is something that’s very real, just as much as, ...

He said he tried the classic therapy for phantom limb pain, called Mirror Box therapy, but said he didn't get the same relief he got after using the mixed reality system, in-home, twice a day for ...

This phenomenon was used by neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran, once an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium, to create his groundbreaking mirror-box therapy, which assists amputees in dealing ...