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| | Phantom limb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Vibration therapy, acupuncture, hypnosis and biofeedback may all be used to treat phantom pain but are often of little help. | | | The nerve pathways in the spinal cord are stimulated by an electric current. | | | Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) can be a very effective treatment for phantom pain. |
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| | Phantom Limb Pain |
| | The relaxation technique is related to the hypnosis treatment by use the use of mind and body to control the pain in both techniques. | | | The following possible relationships between the etiology and maintenance of phantom limb pain were examined: an isomorphic relationship (same-time increases in pain lead to same-time increases in stress and vice versa), a consequence relationship (increases in pain precede increases in stress), and a precursor relationship (increases in stress precede increases in pain). | | | Tsushima (1982) used EMG and temperature biofeedback to treat phantom limb pain in a 51yr old man. Nine EMG biofeedback sessions were effective in eliminating headache and reducing neck and chest pain excluding phantom limb pain. |
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http://hubel.sfasu.edu/courseinfo/SL98/phantom4.html
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| | Phantom Limb - Families.com |
| | Phantom limb pain is often considered to be a form of neuropathic pain, a group of pain syndromes associated with damage to nerves. | | | Although phantom pain is presumably a result of a response to amputation injury, phantom limb pain may occur in nonamputees with spinal cord damage causing loss of sensation. | | | Treatment for phantom limb pain involves the use of medications, nonmedical, electrical, and surgical therapy. |
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http://health.families.com/phantom-limb-666-668-gend
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| | Phantom Limb |
| | Supporting the notion of a neuromatrix which can be modified with experience is the breakdown of the numbers of phantom limb patients with pain and without. | | | found a mean shift in the focus of cortical responsivity of 0.43 centimeters in phantom limb subjects, and a mean shift of 2.05 centimeters in phantom pain subjects (1995). | | | Those who experienced a lot of pain in the limb prior to deafferentation (hospital patients who experience pre-surgical pain before the procedure), tend to often exhibit phantom limb pain. |
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http://www.snl.salk.edu/~ccarello/phantom
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| | The War Amps: Rehabilitation - Phantom Limb Pain |
| | Phantom limb pain is a conscious feeling of a painful limb, after the limb has been amputated. | | | A therapist treating phantom pain may "massage" the missing limb, as well as encourage visualization of the lost limb in an effort to help amputees release any sense of grief, loss or anger towards the missing limb(s). | | | Meditation may help to reduce phantom limb pain by relaxing tense muscles and lowering anxiety levels. |
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http://www.waramps.ca/nac/phantom.html
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| | Phantom Limb and Causalgia: The Tragic Enigmas |
| | Phantom limb pain and causalgia were two clinical pain syndromes that could not be explained in terms of specific nerve pathways. | | | Amputees experienced phantom limbs: the distinct sensation that the missing arm or leg was still attached, often held in a distorted, intensely painful, position. | | | One of the problems that puzzled him early in his career was visceral pain: patients might experience no apparent pain from tissue damage to certain internal organs but would report "referred pain" in another part of the body. |
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http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/painexhibit/panel4.htm
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| | phantom limb - definition of phantom limb in Encyclopedia |
| | The brain in prior theories of neurochemistry had simply not been taken into account - pain was thought to be simply a direct response to a stimulus - the so-called pain/pleasure theory, a one-way "alarm system" like system as proposed by René Descartes. | | | The impact of this theory on medical treatment for pain has been profound, and has made it a multi-disciplinary field. | | | This did not for instance explain why a carpenter can hit his thumb and not feel much pain, whereas a novice is doubled over in agony, nor did it explain phantom limb pain, when the signal is in fact impossible to receive, since the wiring for it is gone. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/phantom_limb
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| | Pain-talk.co.uk The online community & discussion forum for UK Pain Management - Phantom Limb Pain |
| | Phantom limb pain – pain appearing to come from where an amputated limb used to be – is often excruciating and almost impossible to treat. | | | Flor's group has shown that the development of phantom limb pain is correlated with changes in the way peripheral areas of the body are represented in the sensory cortex. | | | In phantom limb pain due to a peripheral nerve injury (brachial plexopathy), Giraux and Sirigu have shown that merely training patients to imagine their paralysed arms moving in relation to a moving arm on a screen in front of them can relieve phantom limb pain. |
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http://www.gb42.com/ynotPhantomLimbPain.html
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| | Phantom Limb Pain |
| | Phantom limb pain occurs among between 50 and 80 percent of amputees(9,10). | | | The specific aim of the treatment is to teach amputees with burning/tingling phantom pain to habitually and unconsciously keep their residual limbs as warm as the intact limb. | | | If the patient describes cramping/squeezing phantom limb pain, and is able to learn control of the voluntary muscles, a trial of surface electromyographic biofeedback is appropriate. |
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| | MedFriendly.com: Phantom limb |
| | Phantom limb pain characterized by shooting pains are harder to treat. | | | Phantom limb pain characterized by cramping has responded better to treatments that prevent the remaining part of the arm or leg from cramping. | | | Phantom pain characterized by burning has responded better to treatments that increase blood flow in the part of the arm or leg that remains. |
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http://www.medfriendly.com/phantomlimb.html
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| | Phantom Limb Pain |
| | Phantom limb pain has long been intriguing to anesthesiologists and other physicians - and irritating to the patients that have had to suffer with this problem after surgery. | | | This is distinguished from the syndrome of phantom limb pain - a chronic pain occurring in some smaller subset of patients. | | | When an injury such as amputation occurs, this results in a major interruption or loss of sensory input from the peripheral limb to the brain As a result, the brain seems to grow new nerve cells in an attempt to "re-wire" its existing pathways of nerve transmission. |
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http://anesthesiologyinfo.com/articles/01272002.php
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| | PCU00-3 |
| | The correlation between muscle tension and burning phantom limb pain appears to be largely mediated by the decrease in surface blood flow as muscle tension increases. | | | Further support for a vascular cause of burning phantom pain is found in the short-term effectiveness of invasive procedures such as sympathetic block or sympathectomies, which increase blood flow to the limb and reduce the intensity of burning phantom and stump pain but not of other descriptors. | | | Phantom pain may be more likely after amputation of a chronically painful limb |
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| | Describing Phantom Limb Experience |
| | Phantom limb pain is as much of a mystery to them as it is to the patients who can feel but not see their missing body parts. | | | Researchers, doctors, and neurologists have all tried various techniques to treat phantom limb sensation, particularly pain: ultrasound, physical therapy, medication, surgery, etc. To date, the most (though far from universal) success has been found with drugs. | | | This "wiring" between the cerebral cortex and the rest of the body has been the focus of research on phantom limb pain. |
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper1/McGrath.html
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| | Coventry Pain Clinic - Nerve Pain - Phantom Limb Pain |
| | This may explain why phantom pain sufferers feel an increase in their phantom arm pain by touching part of their face on the same side of the body, as on the Homunculus the face and hand are very close together. | | | Ischaemic pain (lack of oxygen to the limb) may have somatic and nerve components, and therefore patients may need combinations of paracetamol, morphine, anti-depressants, and anti-convulsants. | | | Phantom pain should be clearly distinguished from phantom experiences and stump pain:- |
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http://www.coventrypainclinic.org.uk/nervepain-phantomlimbpain.htm
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| | Phantom Limb Pain |
| | Phantom limb pain is pain felt in the area where a limb has been amputated. | | | Phantom limb pain can be mild to extremely painful. | | | In some cases, phantom limb pain can be disabling and can lead to a lifelong struggle with chronic pain. |
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http://clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/3600/3692.asp?...&src=news
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| | Phantom Limb Pain & Neuropathic Pain |
| | Therefore, all the medications that are used for neuropathic pain can be useful for phantom pain. | | | It is important to emphasize that the pain is not imagined, and is not the result of a psychological or emotional disturbance. | | | There is some evidence that the chance of developing phantom pain can be reduced by the use of regional anesthesia to provide thorough pain relief prior to surgery and for the first few postoperative days. |
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| | Phantom Limb |
| | Phantom Limb Pain: A Literature Review of Theories and Treatments... | | | Phantom limb pain definition of Phantom limb pain. | | | Coventry Pain Clinic - Nerve Pain - Phantom Limb Pain |
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| | Dr Stephen Juan - Odd News |
| | It is known that the area in the spinal cord assigned to relaying to the brain sensations from the genitals is located next to that of the feet. | | | In cases involving paraplegics, where the spinal cord itself is severed, the limbs, genitals, and other body parts may become "phantoms". | | | If a person had a tight ring on a finger or a painful bunion on the foot prior to the amputation of the arm or leg, the tightness is still felt after the amputation. |
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http://www.harpercollins.com.au/drstephenjuan/news_0205.htm
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| | Pain Medicine & Palliative Care: Pain Medicine |
| | Unlike phantom pain, stump pain occurs in the body part that actually exists, in the stump that remains. | | | Any patient who undergoes an amputation, whether it be traumatic from an unexpected injury or from planned surgery, can develop phantom pain, stump pain, or both. | | | Most authorities currently believe that both phantom pain and other phantom sensations are generated from the spinal cord and brain. |
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http://www.stoppain.org/pain_medicine/content/chronicpain/phantom.asp
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| | Phantom Pain and How to Deal With IT. |
| | Phantom sensation can range from tingling sensations to severe sharp, stabbing pain that can only be controlled via professional pain management. | | | Whilst the debate over what causes phantom pain continue, the debate often overshadows the bottom line: Amputees are in pain because of it. | | | Poor circulation is thought to be one cause of phantom pain. |
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http://www.amputee-online.com/amputee/phantom.html
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| | Prosthesis Use Tied To Less 'phantom' Limb Pain |
| | Cortical reorganization, the reorganization of the "brain map" that governs how the brain registers sensations from various parts of the body, may be responsible for phantom limb pain. | | | The findings are promising because phantom limb pain is of unknown origin, and is difficult to treat. | | | NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters Health) -- Extensive use of a myoelectric prosthetic limb may help prevent 'phantom' limb pain, unpleasant sensations that seem to originate in an amputated limb, German researchers report. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Phantom Limb: Books |
| | I also found the detail in which she describes being an advocate for her mother a fascinating study that can be useful to anyone that is put in the situation of navigating care for ourselves or someone else. | | | Sternburg explores her relationship with her mother and father touchingly, as her tale weaves back and forth from the past to the present, revealing the delicate nature of the human condition. | | | In setting out to learn more about this baffling condition, called Phantom Limb, Sternburg discovered more than she had expected, encountering and developing new ideas about the mind-body relationship. |
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| | Phantom limb pain |
| | Phantom limb pain has been a mystery to the healing professions for a very long time and it is only recently that we are finding ways to relieve it. | | | She then said that she could still feel her fingers "wiggle" (but there is no arm there) and it really bothered her, so I tapped "Even though I can feel my fingers, I completely and deeply accept myself..." Again, she smiled and said the phantom pain had gone to zero. | | | I thought you would find Frank's experience of interest. |
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http://www.emofree.com/cases/phantom.htm
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| | Phantom Limb Excerpts |
| | But I thought there was something to be said for a happy story, especially if it had been made up. | | | "There's a theory that pain felt after an amputation is more or less the same pain that the patient felt before losing the limb. | | | Because your mother has had a history of pain, her condition is likely to last a long while." |
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http://www.zinkville.com/zinkzine/zinkzine6/Sternburg2.htm
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| | Phantom Limb Pain |
| | Phantom Limb Pain (PLP) is an agonizing affliction that effects up to 88 percent of amputees, causing intense burning pain seemingly located in the appendage that no longer exists. | | | Cliff Richardson of John Moores University "looked carefully at how these patients had behaved in the weeks before their amputations. | | | The APA brings us an article just to say, "Phantom Limb Pain Continues to Perplex Experts. |
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| | NOVA Online Secrets of the Mind From Ramachandran's Notebook (6) |
| | The experiments I've discussed so far have helped us understand what is going on in the brains of patients with phantoms and given us hints as to how we might alleviate their pain. | | | But there is a deeper message here: Your own body is a phantom, one that your brain has temporarily constructed purely for convenience. | | | The illusion is so compelling that on a few occasions when I accidentally made a much longer stroke on the table surface than on the subject's hidden hand, the person exclaimed that his hand felt "lengthened" or "stretched" to absurd proportions. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mind/note_nf6.html
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| | Neuronal growth in the brain may explain phantom limb syndrome |
| | The specific regions of the brain in the cerebral cortex, thalamus and brainstem that process sensory information from the central nervous system – -called somatosensory regions- – are highly organized, and this organization begins to change after an amputation or major spinal cord injury. | | | Neuropathic pain responds poorly to standard pain treatment and may get worse instead of better over time. | | | Phantom limb syndrome is the most dramatic and mysterious example of a phenomenon called neuropathic pain, pain that does not seem to have a physical cause because it is produced by a malfunctioning nervous system. |
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| | NOVA Online Secrets of the Mind From Ramachandran's Notebook (5) |
| | Philip rotated his body, shifting his shoulder, to "insert" his lifeless phantom into the box. | | | If so, could we use our virtual reality box to resurrect the phantom visually and restore movements? | | | But," he said, looking down at his invisible arm, "I have never been able to generate a flicker of movement in it." |
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| | The Mantis-Eye Experiment - Venture Encyclopedia |
| | Phantom Limb is not an enemy of Dr. Venture directly, but he plays an important role in the Guild of Calamitous Intent. | | | And by working, I don't mean working like you might think I do. | | | He also has a history with Dr. Girlfriend, who was his number two back when she was Queen Atheria. |
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| | Phantom Limb * a film by Jay Rosenblatt |
| | PHANTOM LIMB reminds viewers that while grief is painful and isolating, it is a reminder to each of us that life is impermanent | | | Interspersed throughout this poetic documentary are interviews with a cemetery owner, a phantom limb patient and an author of a book about evidence for life after death. | | | The film is loosely structured according to these stages. |
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http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/phantom.html
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| | Phantom limb syndrome definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | Phantom limb syndrome: The perception of sensations, usually including pain, in an arm or leg after the limb has been amputated. | | | Phantom limb syndrome definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms | | | Phantom limb syndrome is relatively common in amputees, especially in the early months and years after limb loss. |
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http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=9111
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| | AskOxford: phantom limb |
| | • noun a sensation experienced by a person who has had a limb amputated that the limb is still there. |
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| | phantom limb |
| | She seemed to approve, but I was mortified. | | | When I'm tired after hours behind the counter at work I can put down my phantom limb like a kick-stand and lean against it, so that I stand at a slight, imperceptible tilt. | | | Once, bored at dinner, I came to attention to discover that my phantom limb had slid up under the skirts of the woman opposite, a writer of whom I was rather in awe, and was paddling with its phantom toes in her august parts. |
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| | PHANTOM LIMB |
| | Sign the guestbook and tell me what you think of the site so far. | | | Not much will be happening until he comes back. | | | Phantom Limb will be on hiatus for a month, since Ryan has gone on a trip to Japan. |
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| | Create a Fake Phantom Limb |
| | (excerpted from Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., and Sandra Blakeslee)... |
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| | www.myspace.com/phantomlimb |
| | Phantom Limb delivers the goods any which way you like it, from memorable singing guitar riffs, to devastating circle-pit grooves, to all out blasting mechanized aggression. | | | I can finally tell ryan how i feel about him :) Ryan...i know joe has told you about me. I love you!!!! | | | Hailing from Boston, MA Phantom Limb has emerged as one of the most promising local metal bands. |
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| | Phantom |
| | If you are looking for information on resonance then this is a fairly good place to start. | | | andrew lloyd webbers the phantom of the opera |
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| | Phantom Limb (2005) |
| | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Phantom Limb (2005) |
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| | RhymeZone |
| | noun: the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated | | | Search for phantom limb at other dictionaries: OneLook, Answers.com, Merriam-Webster | | | Type in a word below to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more: |
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