There are no effective treatments for phantom limb pain
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Answer: False
Rationale: One ingenious treatment for treating phantom pain involves a mirror box illusion. Nobody is sure why mirror box therapy works, but evidence suggests that the short term benefits are due to how compelling the illusion is, and in the long term may actually result in reorganization of the somatosensory cortex.
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