Amputees often feel a phantom pain where the lost limb used to be. The brain is confused. But mirror therapy can help — perhaps better than pain killers.

Stimulation through contacts in the C-FINE will produce touch and movement sensations in the missing limb. Intramuscular electrodes were also implanted in muscles in the residual limb, including the ...

A year later, he got a myoelectric arm, a type of prosthetic powered by the electrical signals in his residual limb’s muscles. But Smith hardly used it because it was “very, very slow” and ...

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Artificial limbs, known as myoelectric prosthetics, are directed by electrical signals generated by muscle contractions in the residual limb, which can be translated to motion. However, heavy ...