Up to 90 percent of people who have lost a limb continue to have pain where the arm or leg used to be. It's called phantom limb pain, and it can be debilitating. James Wolf lost part of his right leg ...

Using virtual reality technology to allow an amputee patient to “see” a missing limb could help ease phantom pains, according to a study in Frontiers in Neuroscience. More than 70 percent of amputee ...

October 11, 2011 (Hamburg, Germany) — In the future, amputees might merely repeatedly watch a virtual version of their lost limb in motion to be rid of their phantom limb pain. Researchers believe ...

Amputees experiencing painful phantom limb sensations may be able to find some relief in a novel therapeutic approach incorporating visual and tactile sensory technologies. In recent paper published ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists said on Tuesday they have developed a virtual reality system that can help amputees cope with phantom pain by giving them the illusion that their missing limb is ...