Table 1.

Search strategy

Step	Action
1	“Phantom Limb” searched as MeSH term
2	Titles searched for treatments
3	List of treatments identified
4	Second database search. “Phantom limb” combined with each treatment (included generic medication group and individual drugs from that group, i.e., “antidepressive agents” and “amitriptyline”)
5	Excluded non-English papers or if full text was unavailable
6	Excluded all papers that were not treatment evaluations
7	Reference lists of papers scanned for any papers not previously identified