Sentences with phrase «phantom limb pain still»
«Even though the hand is gone, people with phantom limb pain still feel like there's a hand there — it basically feels painful, like a burning or hypersensitive type of pain, and conventional painkillers are ineffective in treating it,» said study co-author Dr Ben Seymour, a neuroscientist based in Cambridge's Department of Engineering.
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The question remaining unaddressed is whether cutting off other possibilities of romance and sexual attraction while there's still some dim chance of attaining them in favor of the more muted pleasures of «mature love» isn't similar to voluntarily amputating a healthy limb: a lot of anesthesia is required and the phantom pain never entirely abates.
People who lose an arm or leg often experience phantom limb pain, as if the missing limb was still there.
It is still unclear why phantom limb pain and other phantom sensations occur.
It's almost like having a phantom pain in a limb that wasn't amputated from us but our grandfathers, but still the pain is real.
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.