Multidisciplinary care coupled with targeted muscle reinnervation may reduce pain for amputees

Abstract

Although cancer-related limb amputations are not very common (surgeons perform approximately 18,000 of them per year in the United States), a new study in the Journal of Surgical Oncology (doi:10.1002/jso.25586 ) reports that when they are necessary, a multidisciplinary team effort coupled with targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) at the time of amputation reduces the incidence and severity of chronic pain.