What is the best way to manage phantom limb pain?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 155-158

  Black, Lance M ^a   Persons, Robert K ^a   Jamieson, Barbara ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CALCITONIN; GABAPENTIN; MORPHINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PREGABALIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DESENSITIZATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; NERVE STIMULATION; NOTE; PHANTOM PAIN; REFERRED PAIN; TREATMENT FAILURE; AGNOSIA; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; DRUG COMBINATION; METHODOLOGY; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AMPUTATION; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; PAIN; PHANTOM LIMB; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 61849111806     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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