Jul 29, 2022
Post-amputation nerve pain may be preventing you from living life to the fullest. Learn about the causes and a new option for pain relief.
TMR surgery refers to Targeted Muscle Reinnervation, a surgical treatment that is gaining acceptance as a treatment for nerve pain associated with amputation.
Post-amputation pain is common among amputees. You might feel sensations in part of the limb that remains after amputation, or you could experience phantom pain in the area of amputation.
TMR surgery can help reduce post-amputation nerve pain by reconnecting amputated nerves to nearby nerves and eventually muscle targets. If you think about nerves as electrical wiring, TMR helps to complete the “circuit” by reconnecting the “live wire.”
Learn more about what TMR surgery is and how it can help with your pain.
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Learn about the life-changing results of TMR surgery from patients who have had the procedure.
Through the study, she received TMR surgery in February 2015. “I was back to work by August 2015. The surgery completely took away the phantom pain and neuroma pain, which had become literally unbearable.”
An accident in her teens led Theresa to make a difficult decision much later in life — an above-the-knee amputation in her 50s. It was...
Joe despaired when phantom pain took away his chance to regain his sporting lifestyle. Today, Joe competes as a para snowboarder, thanks to TMR…
Keith Philizaire lived through years of anguish and pain medication for severe phantom limb pain after the amputation of his leg...
Tiffany lost her arm in a shark attack but was fortunate to receive TMR at the time of her amputation, preventing a lifetime of pain and disability…
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