Treating traumatic amputation-related phantom limb pain: A case study utilizing eye movement desensitization and reprocessing within the armed services

Clinical Case Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 136-153

  Russell, Mark C ^a,b  

^a US Naval Hospital   (Japan)

^b USN ^*

Author keywords

EMDR; Military; Pain; Phantom limb; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISABLED PERSON; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHANTOM PAIN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TERRORISM; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR;

EID: 40849085306     PISSN: 15346501     EISSN: 15523802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534650107306292     Document Type: Review

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