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What does the medical term Phantom Limb Syndrome means? According to a medical website it is the perception of sensations, usually including pain, in an arm or leg after the limb has been amputated. The brain still gets messages from the nerves that originally carried impulses from the missing limb. Phantom limb syndrome is relatively common in amputees, especially in the early months and years after limb loss (Medicinenet. ... Phantom Limb Syndrome was originally called "hallucinated limb," but a famous Dr. ...
I was amazed to hear that amputee patients, with either their legs or arms removed thought that they still had their limb. Does the half limb have a mind of its own? It is said that Phantom Limb Syndrome occurs within at least 70 percent of the amputees (http://www.
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