Phantom Pain And Limbs
The loss of an arm or leg through amputation is not an easy experience to endure, and is even more difficult when the patient begins to feel uncomfortable sensations in their now missing limb. This feeling, referred to as "phantom pain" or "stump hallucination", is a frustrating sensation to an amputee.
For some amputees, these phantom sensations may be no more than painless distractions of pressure, warmth, and cold that do not interfere with their everyday lives. Some patients have even reported having phantom pleasures; an "orgasmic" feeling in a missing limb. For the majority of amputees, about 50% to 80% (Sherman), they experience phantom pains that vary in classification from cramping, burning, tingling, shocking, shooting and stabbing pains. These episodes are severe enough to interfere with work, sleep and normal function, and do require some kind of treatment. Phantom pain can occur anytime, from immediately after an amputation to several years later.
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