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ProfessorDarioFarina

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering

Chair in Neurorehabilitation Engineering
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 1387d.farina Website

 
 
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RSM 4.15Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{De:2018:1741-2552/aae271,
author = {De, Nunzio AM and Schweisfurth, MA and Ge, N and Fella, D and Hahne, J and Goedecke, K and Petzke, F and Siebertz, M and Dechent, P and Weiss, T and Flor, H and Graimann, B and Aszmann, OC and Farina, D},
doi = {1741-2552/aae271},
journal = {Journal of Neural Engineering},
title = {Relieving phantom limb pain with multimodal sensory-motor training},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aae271},
volume = {15},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Objective. The causes for the disabling condition of phantom limb pain (PLP), affecting 85% of amputees, are so far unknown, with few effective treatments available. Sensory feedback based strategies to normalize the motor commands to control the phantom limb offer important targets for new effective treatments as the correlation between phantom limb motor control and sensory feedback from the motor intention has been identified as a possible mechanism for PLP development. Approach. Ten upper-limb amputees, suffering from chronic PLP, underwent 16 days of intensive training on phantom-limb movement control. Visual and tactile feedback, driven by muscular activity at the stump, was provided with the aim of reducing PLP intensity. Main results. A 32.1% reduction of PLP intensity was obtained at the follow-up (6 weeks after the end of the training, with an initial 21.6% reduction immediately at the end of the training) reaching clinical effectiveness for chronic pain reduction. Multimodal sensory-motor training on phantom-limb movements with visual and tactile feedback is a new method for PLP reduction. Significance. The study results revealed a substantial reduction in phantom limb pain intensity, obtained with a new training protocol focused on improving phantom limb motor output using visual and tactile feedback from the stump muscular activity executed to move the phantom limb.
AU  - De,Nunzio AM
AU  - Schweisfurth,MA
AU  - Ge,N
AU  - Fella,D
AU  - Hahne,J
AU  - Goedecke,K
AU  - Petzke,F
AU  - Siebertz,M
AU  - Dechent,P
AU  - Weiss,T
AU  - Flor,H
AU  - Graimann,B
AU  - Aszmann,OC
AU  - Farina,D
DO  - 1741-2552/aae271
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 1741-2552
TI  - Relieving phantom limb pain with multimodal sensory-motor training
T2  - Journal of Neural Engineering
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aae271
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000448166900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/67183
VL  - 15
ER  -
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