After an amputation, some patients may feel pain in their residual limbs. Post-amputation pain, categorized as phantom pain or stump pain, can be a challenging condition to treat. Phantom pain is ...

Fifty to 80 percent of all amputees experience pain in their stumps or what feels like the missing limbs long after surgical wounds have healed. Now new research from Johns Hopkins suggests the two ...

Imperial scientists hope to re-engineer stump skin for more comfortable prosthetics—using skin from the sole of the foot as a template. People who have had limbs removed often use false arms and legs, ...