Now a therapy originally developed to ease the pain caused by limbs that have been lost offers them some hope of relief. The technique, known as mirror box therapy, is used to treat phantom limb ...

Interviewer: Now, Dr. Hansen, I guess I'm just a bit of a layperson here, but a $15 mirror that you can get at a big box store can significantly help with your pain. What exactly is happening, I guess ...

Thus, mirror box therapy is thought to improve upper limb function through both movement and mental stimulation (Stevens and Stoykov 2003, Uswatte et al 2005). Current Research A Cochrane review by ...