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Mirror visual feedback alleviates deafferentation pain, depending on qualitative aspects of the pain: a preliminary report.

M M Sumitani, S S Miyauchi, C S CS McCabe, M M Shibata, L L Maeda, Y Y Saitoh, T T Tashiro, and T T Mashimo

Rheumatology (Oxford) 47(7):1038-43 (2008) PMID 18463143

Following lesions in somatosensory pathways, deafferentation pain often occurs. Patients report that the pain is qualitatively complex, and its treatment can be difficult. Mirror visual feedback (MVF) treatment can improve deafferentation pain. We sought to classify the qualities of the pain in order to examine whether the potential analgesic effect of MVF depends on these qualities.

DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ken170
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