Pain in a phantom limb after limb deafferentation may be due to maladaptive sensorimotor representation. Here the authors find that sensorimotor plasticity induced by BMI training with the phantom hand, contrary to expectation, increased pain while dissociating prosthetic movements from the phantom arm relieved the pain.
- Takufumi Yanagisawa
- Ryohei Fukuma
- Youichi Saitoh