Box therapy for phantom limb pain

I have been reading a fascinating book, Phantoms of the Brain, by the famous neuroscientist V S Ramachandran.

When I came across this link, I jumped at the opportunity of hearing him speak:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/12/25/simple-3-idea-eliminates-intense-pain-and-paralysis.aspx

Phantom limb pain haunts soldiers and accident victims whose limbs are amputated. They experience severe pain in limbs they no longer have, and even more paradoxically, feel their phantom limbs are paralysed.

But the problem is not confined to war and accident amputees: women who have their uteruses surgically removed are known to experience phantom menstrual cramps and periods.

In the course of his experiments, Ramachandran discovered that a simple box fitted with a mirror could solve one of medical science's biggest mysteries.

Patients who saw a simulated image of their paralysed phantom limbs were able to establish control over them. Pain sufferers found the problem going away! No medication, no surgery, just the brain rewiring itself and taking care of a ghost problem.

Watch this video. It shows how our most complex health problems could have simple, inexpensive solutions, if only we knew where to look.