January 8, 2019

Preemptive Treatment of Phantom and Residual Limb Pain with Targeted Muscle Reinnervation at the Time of Major Limb Amputation

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Abstract

Preemptive surgical intervention of amputated nerves with TMR at the time of limb loss should be strongly considered to reduce pathologic phantom limb pain and symptomatic neuroma-related residual limb pain.

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Valerio et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dd67572f737f012599be9c https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2018.12.015

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