Sherman R A
Am J Phys Med. 1980 Oct;59(5):232-44.
A review of all available published literature showed that 43 individual treatments for phantom limb pain have been in recent use. These range from such drastic measures as lobotomies, through spinal surgery and reamputation to more innocuous treatments such as injection of the stump with anesthetics and relaxation training. Virtually all of the methods reported as successful by several workers have been specifically listed by others as unsuccessful. Only a few of the newer treatments, such as relaxation training, have not been reviewed as unseccessful. This may be as much a factor of their recent advent as their lasting success. The success rate of most treatments is below the rate and duration of success produced by placebo treatments of surgical pain.
对所有已发表文献的回顾表明，近期有43种针对幻肢痛的个体治疗方法在使用。这些方法从诸如脑叶切除术等极端措施，到脊柱手术、再次截肢，再到如向残端注射麻醉剂和放松训练等较为无害的治疗方法不等。实际上，一些研究人员报告为成功的所有方法，其他研究人员都明确列为不成功。只有少数较新的治疗方法，如放松训练，未被视为不成功。这可能与其近期出现的因素一样，是其持久成功的因素。大多数治疗方法的成功率低于手术疼痛安慰剂治疗产生的成功率和成功持续时间。
