HC Deb 03 March 1960 vol 618 cc163-4W
Mr. L. M. Lever

asked the Minister of Health if he will indicate the steps taken by his Department in endeavours to alleviate the distressing phantom limb and other pains of amputation and whether he has any proposals for widening and intensifying research into these matters.

Miss Pitt

Treatment is given at a number of hospitals for phantom limb and amputation stump pains by the methods judged most appropriate in each case. At Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, intractable cases are reviewed and given recognised forms of treatment under the supervision of various specialists: the methods used there are generally known. The study of causes and of methods of treatment is part of the general study of pain which is carried out in many places in this country and abroad.