Il dolore dell’arto fantasma e l’ipnosi come possibile opzione di trattamento

Journal title IPNOSI
Author/s Gaetano Rinaldi
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/1
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 35-46 File size 211 KB
DOI 10.3280/IPN2016-001004
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The phantom limb syndrome, in its different aspects, is in some ways to this day still a neurological mystery. The algic component of the problem has been treaded with physical procedures such as the mirror box eith promising results. Recently the trend is towards mind-body treatments which rest on new technologies apt to produce a virtual reality. The author of the article reports his therapeutic experience with a patient suffering from such a syndrome, through the use of an older but very current mind-body therapy: hypnosis.

La sindrome dell’arto fantasma nei suoi diversi aspetti rimane ad oggi per alcuni versi un mistero della neurologia. La componente algica del problema è stata trattata con procedure fisiche quali la mirror box con risultati promettenti. Recentemente ci si è orientati su trattamenti mente-corpo poggianti sulle nuove tecnologie atte a produrre una realtà virtuale. L’autore dell’articolo riporta la sua esperienza terapeutica con un paziente affetto da tale sindrome, condotta attraverso l’uso della terapia mente-corpo più antica, ma ancora di stretta attualità, l’ipnosi.

Keywords: Phantom limb, hypnosis, mirror box, virtual reality, pain, mind-body

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Gaetano Rinaldi, Il dolore dell’arto fantasma e l’ipnosi come possibile opzione di trattamento in "IPNOSI" 1/2016, pp 35-46, DOI: 10.3280/IPN2016-001004