Immediate response of phantom limb pain to calcitonin
- 1 July 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 30 (1) , 79-87
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3959(87)90085-6
Abstract
We applied calcitonin in a single-shot treatment to 10 patients with persistent or acute phantom limb pain. Nine patients responded immediately and noted a clear analgesic effect. In contrast a group of non-phantom pain patients of heterogeneous composition did not respond at all, except 1 patient with chronic stump pain. We believe that this could be an exciting new approach to the treatment of phantom limb pain.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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