by Joe Carlson Medical device company SPR Therapeutics makes a neuromodulation system in Minnesota that can treat pain in a person’s limbs—even limbs that were amputated long ago. Treating phantom-limb pain is just one of the applications for the Sprint peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) system, a medical device that has been shown to create long-lasting...
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A new theory for phantom limb pain points the way to more effective treatment
CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Dr Max Ortiz Catalan of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed a new theory for the origin of the mysterious condition, ‘phantom limb pain’. Published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, his hypothesis builds upon his previous work on a revolutionary treatment for the condition, that uses machine learning and...