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  • Published on: 20 June 2022
    RE: Efficacy of mirror therapy and virtual reality therapy in alleviating phantom limb pain

    With great interest, I have read the review article entitled “Efficacy of mirror therapy and virtual reality therapy in alleviating phantom limb pain: a meta-analysis and systematic review” written by Rajendram et al (1). The authors conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the effects of mirror therapy (MT) and virtual reality (VR) therapy on phantom limb pain (PLP). Both therapies led to a reduction of visual analogue scale (VAS) scores on PLP, and there was no statistically significant difference in pain alleviation between two therapies. The authors recommended that factors such as gender, cause of amputation, site of limb loss or length of time from amputation should be considered for the analysis. I present additional information regarding the effect of MT on PLP.
    Wang et al. also conducted a meta-analysis, handling randomized controlled trials (RCTs) (2). The pooled standardized mean difference (SMD) (95% confidence interval [CI]) of MT group was -0.81 (-1.36 to -0.25), which was compared with other 6 methods (four covered mirror, one phantom exercise, three mental visualization, one sensorimotor exercise, one transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, and one tactile stimuli). They concluded that MT was beneficial for reducing phantom limb pain. There is a fact that the authors did not consider follow-up intervals, and a control group was consisted a complex of traditional treatments for patients with PLP. I suppose that heterogeneous treatments may have diff...

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