Healthy Living: Easing Amputation Pain

Two million people in the United States are living without a limb.

Now, surgeons at Ohio State University and other top centers in the country are performing a surgery called targeted muscle reinnervation, or TMR, to rewire the body.

In Healthy Living, Courtney Hunter explains the procedure that is lessening or eliminating limb pain for patients. 

Dr. Valerio and his colleagues at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center say TMR was traditionally performed months or years after the amputation.

Dr. Valerio says when TMR is done at the same time, most patients will be off pain medication within three months.