Month: October 2023

How Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Helps Amputees with Phantom Limb Pain

People who have lost a limb in an accident, at war, or in other circumstances sometimes experience phantom limb pain or residual limb pain in the missing extremity. Dr. Gregory Dumanian and his colleagues at Northwestern Memorial Hospital created a revolutionary procedure that helps patients with amputations improve their pain called targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR).