Sentences with phrase «about phantom pains»
But we all know about phantom pains, when one continues, in symbolic reference, to locate the pain in the amputated limb.
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Researchers have long known that simply viewing an image of an amputee's intact foot or arm in a mirror can sometimes help relieve phantom pain, as if the brain's sense of self adjusts its conflicting sensations about the missing limb.
According to the researchers, phantom limb pain was marginalised in medical discussions of the war, possibly because surgeons were helpless to do anything about it.
«We can be pretty certain that phantom limb pain would have been a common problem among the many amputees who survived the war, but at least in this archive, there was curiously little discussion of it or about its management.
He bore shrapnel wounds from World War II that probably shortened his life and she recalls him telling her about soldiers suffering from phantom limb pain, which he equated with the experience of sculpture: it's as real as it can be, but also elusive, residing in the imagination.