Mirror therapy
Journal Title: Rehabilitacja Medyczna - Year 2013, Vol 17, Issue 4
Abstract
Phantom phenomena occur in many people following limb amputation. The article presents in part their incoherent and heterogeneous characteristics. A phantom limb may assume a complete or incomplete form, one shorter or longer than the healthy one (the telescopic effect), that is rotated, deformed, fragmented, as equally mobile or immobile. For the patient after limb amputation the perception of their own body scheme changes, which displays itself in the appearance of phantom phenomena. To date there has not been developed a fully effective method for the treatment of the pain endured and the unpleasant phantom sensations themselves. A method of particular note is mirror therapy, enabling the patient to conjure up the illusion of the existence of the entire body scheme after limb amputation, and with the same reducing either the pain endured and/or the unpleasant phantom phenomena. The effect of mirror therapy involves the generating of feedback through the transfer of visual information, which more than likely arouses the mirror neuron system. In the work attempts were undertaken to regulate the way mirror therapy was conducted and to present its effects on the basis of the subject literature available, as well as on the basis of several years of personal experience in its application amongst post limb amputation patients. The way in which mirror therapy is used is tailor-made to the individual needs of the given patient, depending on the type of phantom phenomena experienced.
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Aneta Pirowska
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