MedPage Today (3/24, Dotinga) reports, “Amputees with psychiatric and medical conditions are much more likely to experience phantom limb syndrome,” investigators concluded in a study that “examined 64,158 patients from a large insurance database who had undergone one or more extremity amputations.” The findings of the “retrospective cohort study” were presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting.
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