Sentences with phrase «as phantom limb pain»

Although the journal devoted considerable attention to pain in amputees» stumps, there was very little discussion of the pain they felt in their missing limbs, despite this phenomenon — known as phantom limb pain — having been identified at least 50 years earlier.

Between 50 and 80 percent of these patients suffer with chronic pain in the «phantom» hand, known as phantom limb pain.

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He is best known for the work that overlaps with my own interests: using mirrors as a low - tech form of virtual reality to treat phantom - limb pain and stroke paralysis.

People who lose an arm or leg often experience phantom limb pain, as if the missing limb was still there.

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.

They may also suffer from phantom limb syndrome and feel as if their missing limb is in extreme pain.

We suspect that the cats feel phantom pain in their amputation sites, just as some human amputees feel phantom pain for years in limbs that are no longer there.

Just as a human following an amputation has phantom pain or a sensation that the missing limb is still there, cats will feel like their claws are still there.

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.