title: [Neurorehabilitation for Neuropathic Pain].
abstract: Deafferentation, like as in limb amputation, brachial plexus avulsion injury and spinal cord injury, is usually followed by neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain is a debilitating condition and it impairs the quality of life profoundly. Based on recent advances in the cognitive neuroscience, we explain intimate relationships among neuropathic pain, reorganization of primary sensory and motor cortices and the sensorimotor integration of the deafferentated limb. From the standpoint of the sensorimotor integration theory for emerging phantom limb pain, we further discuss the analgesic mechanism of neurorehabilitation techniques such as mirror visual feedback treatment and its related neurorobotics advancement for neuropathic pain.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hozumi
authors.forename: Michihiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Osumi
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ogata
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sumitani
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010591:Phantom Limb / Q000534:rehabilitation; D066191:Sensorimotor Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology