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• It's hard to imagine, suffering from phantom limb pain for 54 years and having the pain end overnight. After a severe operation left him with a tremendous amount of pain, Jim, a 72-year-old above-knee amputee, tried everything to alleviate it, even countless painkillers prescribed by his doctor. After years of suffering he decided to try a different approach.
  
  Last year Jim ordered his first Farabloc limb cover and since, reports only having one minor pain episode. His quality of life has improved so greatly he... read the complete article at Active Living Magazine
  
  
• Living With the Ghost: An Update on Phantom Limb Pain.
  O & P Business News - Studies suggest that up to 80% of amputees will experience phantom pain in their lifetime. With few questions answered, patients and practitioners find their own ways of handling the agonizing affliction. (read a pdf of the article)
  
  
• Efficacy of Farabloc as an analgesic in primary fibromyalgia, an article in the respected British peer reviewed journal Clinical Rheumatology, published in January, 2007, by Dr. G.L. Bach and Dr. D.B. Clement. see the abstract here
  
  
• Farabloc: a revolutionary treatment for reducing pain Online article at Medbroadcast.com. Site delivers in-depth, physician-reviewed health & fitness articles on drugs and conditions, as well as the latest health news, medical research & more read the article at www.medbroadcast.com
  
  
• Phantom Pain is No Phantom (August 2006), an article in The O & P Edge, an online publication of www.oandp.com, the global resource for orthotics and prosthetics information. read the article at www.oandp.com
  
  
• Pain Killers, "The Inventor" , a June 2003 article by Vicki O'Brien in BC Business Magazine. see the article here
  
  
• Metal Fibre Cloth Relieves Muscle Pain and Muscle Injuries , a Winter 2000
  article in American Prosthetic and Orthotic News. see the article at www.oandp.com
  
  
• Evidence for the optimal management of acute and chronic phantom pain: a systematic review; June, 2002, Clinical Journal of Pain; Halbert J, Crotty M, Cameron ID; Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia. (listed by PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE) see the abstract here
  
  
• The efficacy of Farabloc, an electromagnetic shield, in attenuating delayed-onset muscle soreness, by Jian Zhang, M.Sc. Dr. Doug Clement and Dr. Jack Taunton, a study first published in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, Philadelphia, PA in 2000 (pdf of article) (listed by PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE), and a similar article published by the British Columbia Medical Journal in 2001. see article on bcma.org here or read pdf of article
  
  
• Influence of Weather on Report of Pain; (1996) Robert N. Jamison, PhD, Departments of Anesthesia and Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. read more
  
  
• Farabloc is now the “Standard of Care” for Phantom Limb Pain, a report by Cecil Hershler, MD, PhD, FRCP(C) who states, "I first encountered Farabloc during a research study in 1990 (University of British Columbia, School of Rehabilitation). Together with Dr. Tali Conine, we examined the efficacy of using Farabloc to manage phantom limb pain in amputees. The study utilized a randomized, double-blind, crossover design to find in favour of Farabloc. The outcome was consequently published in a number of medical Journals, among them, this 1993 article in the Canadian Journal of Rehabilitation (pdf)

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