Mirror box therapy was initially developed by V. S. Ramachandran. The purpose of this new medical device was to try to reduce what was described as “phantom limb pain.” Mirror box therapy is defined ...

October 9, 2007 (Washington, DC) — Results of a randomized, sham-controlled study suggest that mirror therapy, already shown to help reduce phantom-limb pain (PLP) for those with upper-limb ...

Northern Times’ columnist Mark Gilbert looks back on 22 weeks of pain, persistence and an unusual path to recovery.

October 15, 2008 (Vienna, Austria) — Mirror therapy, a strategy that has been used successfully to treat phantom pain after amputation, may promote recovery from hemiplegia after a stroke, a new study ...