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Mirror therapy (MT) or mirror visual feedback (MVF) is a therapy for pain or disability that affects one side of the patient more than the other side. It was invented by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran to treat post-amputation patients who had phantom limb pain (PLP).
Mirror therapy was invented by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran due to his interest in phantom limb pain. Ramachandran is Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition, and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego.
Jul 8, 2014 · Srinath Perur cycles round Cambodia with a man treating hundreds of sufferers with an unusual tool – a mirror. One of the few Khmer words Stephen Sumner knows is chhue. It means ‘pain’, and...
Mirror therapy was first described as a successful treatment for phantom pain by Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran in the mid-1990s. Since then, several case reports have described similar success with the treatment.
After early work on human vision, Ramachandran turned to work on wider aspects of neurology including phantom limbs and phantom pain. Ramachandran have also performed the world's first "phantom limb amputation" surgeries by inventing the mirror therapy, which is now widely used for reducing phantom pains (and eliminating phantom sensations ...
This article examines the material culture of neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran's research into phantom limbs. In the 1990s Ramachandran used a 'mirror box' to 'resurrect' phantom limbs and thus to treat the pain that often accompanied them.
Jun 13, 2016 · As Ramachandran argued, the disappearance of D.S.’s phantom arm (and most of the associated pain) after two weeks of practice with the mirror box was the result of the ‘long-term cortical reorganisation of brain maps’.
