Mirror therapy
Caja espejo
- Date
- c. 1990s · confidence medium
- Place
- San Diego, California, United States
- Credited to
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A therapeutic technique that uses a mirror to create the visual illusion of an intact limb where an amputated one is missing, developed by neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran to treat phantom limb pain.
What it led to
- extended to treating complex regional pain syndrome and stroke rehabilitation
- spurred research into visuomotor neuroplasticity
- inspired virtual-reality therapies for phantom pain