Graded Motor Imagery for Phantom Limb Pain

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Graded Motor Imagery for the Management of Phantom Limb Pain

• IRAS ID

  124755

• Contact name

  Imad Sedki

• Contact email

  imad.sedki@gmail.com

• Sponsor organisation

  Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

• Research summary

  To test the effectiveness of components of a graded motor imagery programme for the reduction of phantom pain in amputation subjects. Theory predicts 3 stages:
  1) Recognising whether pictures of a limb are R or L to aid mental representation of the absent limb.

  2) To imagine placing the phantom limb in the position shown in a selection of pictures.

  3) To perform simultaneous movements with the phantom limb and the intact limb reflected in a mirror to represent the absent limb. Currently we do not know whether these components are all effective for the reduction of pain and in what order they should be presented.

• REC name

  London - Stanmore Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  14/LO/0005

• Date of REC Opinion

  21 Feb 2014

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion