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Mirror Therapy


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This article reviews the use of mirror therapy for treating many neurological disorders like phantom limb pain, chronic regional pain syndrome and stroke paralysis. Mirror visual feed back activates the mirror neurons to unlearn the learned paralysis / learned pain. This simple, non invasive, cost effective modality replaced the way we approach damage to the brain. This noteworthy modality will flood the faith and hope among amputees and stroke survivors.

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Mirror Therapy, Mirror Neurons, Phantom Limb Pain, Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome, Stroke Paralysis.
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B. Thangapappa
Sacred Heart Nursing College, Madurai, India
E. Devakirubai
Sacred Heart Nursing College, Madurai, India

Abstract


This article reviews the use of mirror therapy for treating many neurological disorders like phantom limb pain, chronic regional pain syndrome and stroke paralysis. Mirror visual feed back activates the mirror neurons to unlearn the learned paralysis / learned pain. This simple, non invasive, cost effective modality replaced the way we approach damage to the brain. This noteworthy modality will flood the faith and hope among amputees and stroke survivors.

Keywords


Mirror Therapy, Mirror Neurons, Phantom Limb Pain, Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome, Stroke Paralysis.