![]() Through the use of this artificial visual feedback, it becomes possible for the patient to "move" the phantom limb and to unclench it from potentially painful positions. Because the subject is seeing the reflected image of the good limb moving, it appears as if the phantom limb is also moving. The goal is for the patient to imagine regaining control over a missing limb. The patient then looks into the mirror on the side with the good limb and makes "mirror symmetric" movements, as a symphony conductor might, or as a person does when they clap their hands. Ramachandran created a visual (and psychological) illusion of two intact limbs by putting the patient's affected limb into a "mirror box," with a mirror down the center (facing toward a patient's intact limb). Ramachandran to treat post-amputation patients who had phantom limb pain (PLP). Mirror therapy (MT) or mirror visual feedback (MVF) is a therapy for pain or disability that affects one side of the patient more than the other side. ![]() An occupational therapy assistant using mirror therapy to address phantom pain ![]()
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