Chapter 20
Mirror therapy
Christian Dohle
1
,
2
, Eric Altschuler
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, and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
4
1
MEDIAN Klinik Berlin-Kladow, Berlin, Germany
2
Center for Stroke Research Berlin, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
3
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Metropolitan Hospital, New York, NY, United States
4
Department of Psychology and Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States
Abstract
During mirror therapy (MT), a mirror is placed in the patient's midsagittal plane in such a way that the mirror image of the unaffected limb looks as if it were optically superimposed on the affected one. MT was first observed to relieve painful ...
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