Here is a clinical trial using this type of mirror therapy:
https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/31461/1/48-243-2-PB.pdf
And another: (Note: both of these studies suggest that self-administration is likely to have limited efficacy.)
http://www.joopm.com/index.php?journal=joopm&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=48
http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/david-s-mirror-illusions-and-pain-perception-838
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2008/09/mirrors-as-medicine.html
you can also find a link to this blog on Dr. Gawande's web site: http://www.gawande.com/misc.htm
and V. S. Ramachandran has mentioned David in at least one scholarly article: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/awp135v1 Please note that there is a factual error in the piece: we were not treating David for Trigeminal Neuralgia, but for Anesthesia Dolorosa.
http://im-09-ta.blogspot.com/2009/04/itching-phantoms.html
and they are talking about us over at TNA: http://forum.fpa-support.org/forum.aspx?g=posts&m=4876ጌ
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non-reversed mirror therapy
This blog describes how we used mirror therapy to eliminate my husband's pain from Anesthesia Dolorosa and how we were able to get him off of Neurontin as a result. We have arranged the entries so that you can read from top to bottom if you are new to the blog. The links on the right should also make it easy to skip around.
non-reversed mirror therapy
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7 comments:
Wow, that really is amazing. Definitely a miracle.
Reading your husband's story sounds just like my own. What kind of facial massage did you do?
Thank you for sharing your story and giving others hope!
Anne Masterson
Norwich, CT
I have TN and am scheduled for surgery June 19. I am going to do mirror therapy ASAP. Thank you for sharing all of this with us.
@ AnneM--keep reading--there's even a video
@ Anonymous--we don't know that this works for TGN, since TGN is not a sensor syndrome. But we don't know that it doesn't work, either. Good luck.
We are at our wits end - and your story 'mirrors' ours almost identically. I googled 'miracle treatment for anesthesia dolorosa', just out of frustration. And I got your blog. I hope we have similar results.
God bless you for sharing your miracle with others.
Thanks and regards,
Thanks for sharing your story! I'm a pain researcher and I must admit that when I came to the page I expected some kind of New Age stuff... but it turns out to be a very interesting mechanism, giving us a glimpse of how the brain interprets a lack of information! Our brains do intriguing things that we are only beginning to understand... So again, thank you and all the best to you and your husband!
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