Management of Phantom Pain with a Textile, Electromagnetically-Acting Stump Liner: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Crossover Study

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 352-360

  Kern, Uwe ^a   Altkemper, Bernd ^a   Kohl, Matthias ^a  

^a Center of Pain Management and Palliative Care (UK)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amputation stump; artificial limbs; electromagnetic; phantom pain; silicon liner

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEVICE; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; MALE; NEUROMA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHANTOM PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLEEP; VALIDATION PROCESS; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AMPUTATION STUMPS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PAIN; PHANTOM LIMB; RADIATION PROTECTION; TEXTILES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748796889     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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