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| | Phantom Pain and How to Deal With IT. |
 | | 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. | | | Phantom Pain and How to Deal With It.... |
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http://www.amputee-online.com/amputee/phantom.html
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Pain - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Phantom limb pain is the sensation of pain from a limb that one no longer has or no longer gets physical signals from - an experience almost universally reported by amputees and quadriplegics. | | | Associated articles include psychological pain, also known as emotional pain or emotional distress. | | | Chronic pain is roughly defined as long-term pain or pain that is not necessarily associated with any form of injury or disease. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/p/pain.html
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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. |
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http://www.emofree.com/cases/phantom.htm
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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 hypotheses were that the severity of pain could be positively correlated with the subjectsí present personal problems and attitudes, or it could be correlated with their experience of pain in the limb before amputation. | | | As psychogenic pain the pain is created or sustained by the mind. |
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http://hubel.sfasu.edu/courseinfo/SL98/phantom4.html
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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. | | | Almost every month I have a patient who comes to me in such severe pain that they ask, "Doctor, can't you just cut the nerve?" Sometimes their distress is so great that they will suggest that I amputate the painful limb. |
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http://www.helpforpain.com/arch2000jul.htm
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| | phantom pain |
| | Throughout this explanation we will also be contrasting the pain pathway with the other pathway closely related, which is the pathway for non noxious stimuli. | | | Under our skin there are receptors for many sensations: light and deep pressure, movement, temperature and also for pain. | | | Embedded in our skin, for example, there are some three million "pain spots", regions which are a good deal more sensitive to pain than the surfaces immediately surrounding them. |
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http://www.macalester.edu/~psych/whathap/UBNRP/Phantom/phantompain.html
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| | Pain |
| | However, increased pain, pain from surgery and other medical procedures, and continuing pain are preventable through drug treatments and alternative therapies. | | | Diagnosis of the disease causing a specific pain is further complicated by the fact that pain can be referred to (felt at) a skin site that does not seem to be connected to the site of the pain's origin. | | | Can also refer to cancer pain, pain from a chronic or degenerative disease, and pain from an unidentified cause. |
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http://www.chclibrary.org/micromed/00059570.html
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| | Pain Medicine & Palliative Care |
| | 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. | | | Some studies suggest if a patient has pain in the area about to be amputated before the amputation, there is a greater likelihood of developing phantom pain. | | | Because it is a pain due to an injured peripheral nerve, drugs used for nerve pain may be helpful (see Treatment of Phantom Pain). |
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http://www.stoppain.org/pain_medicine/phantom.html
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| | cottages - the manteno project |
| | 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. | | | After an injury had healed, the patient experienced intense, burning pain and sensitivity to the slightest vibration or touch, usually in the hand or foot, but at a site some distance removed from the original wound.-http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/painexhibit/panel4.htm |
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http://www.mantenostatehospital.com/cottages.html
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| | New Piece To Puzzle In Phantom Pain Mystery |
| | The investigators also found that in patients experiencing phantom pain, the sensation can be recreated by stimulating within the brain. | | | Some amputees develop pain in their phantom or stump and this is frequently very difficult to control with conventional therapies. | | | "Phantom pain can severely compromise the quality of life of patients who have already had to adjust to a change in body image and quite often their activities of daily living." |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/01/980121155728.htm
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| | Phantom Limb Pain |
| | Phantom pain can occur anytime, from just after an amputation to years later. | | | Amputees who give mixed descriptions of phantom pain which include shocking/shooting sensations may have success learning to control other descriptions of phantom pain but the shocking/shooting sensations are likely to remain unchanged. | | | 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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http://www.bfe.org/protocol/pro05eng.htm
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| | Phantom Limbs Phantom Limb Pain |
| | Whilst not all amputees will experience phantom limb pain, there is evidence to suggest that the majority will at least initially continue to perceive the body part as still being present in some form. | | | Patients with this pain will generally refer to the pain being in the spatial location of where the limb would have been or may even continue to experience a deterioration of the limb with an accompanied increase in pain. | | | As a generalization, there is less likely to be phantom pain following amputation if the patient is given sufficient analgesia for a 1-2 week period prior to the surgery. |
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http://www.23nlpeople.com/Phantom.htm
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| | 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. | | | The pain is described in various ways: burning, aching, 'as if the hand is being crushed in a vice,' etc. Such words, however, cannot fully encompass the experience of living with such a pain. | | | 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. |
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http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/pain/microsite/medicine2.html
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| | Phantom Limb Pain |
| | Phantom limb pain is the perception of pain in a limb that does not physically exist. | | | Yes, chiropractic neurology is an appropriate therapy for stroke rehabilitation, especially when other forms of therapy have come up short of desired results. | | | However, if new connections are also made with pain areas, it is believed the individual will experience phantom limb pain.This is the most current theory on phantom limb pain/sensation. |
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http://www.functionalrestoration.com/conscious_living_autumn_2002.htm
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| | MayoClinic.com - Phantom pain |
| | Stump pain occurs in many people who have phantom pain and may be related to phantom pain. | | | Treatments for phantom pain may involve medications or other therapies. | | | Having a missing a limb may mean you experience pain that's just as real as if you still had the limb. |
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http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?objectid=F14E5BB4-5594-4003-86CAEF746A054A41&locID=
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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. | | | In many patients, this sensation will fade with time - and there is no pain experienced. | | | This is distinguished from the syndrome of phantom limb pain - a chronic pain occurring in some smaller subset of patients. |
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http://www.anesthesiologyinfo.com/articles/01272002.php
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| | Mirror Box Observations |
| | Where the pain is caused by nerve pain or stump pain, the mirror box is of no benefit. | | | The technique is invariably more effective and dramatic when working with a phantom arm rather than leg. | | | Success vastly increases where the client approaches the box with their remaining arm already in a mirror-position to that of the phantom. |
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http://www.23nlpeople.com/phantom_limb_pain.htm
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| | Phantom Limb Pain |
| | As many as 80% of amputees will experience phantom limb pain. | | | Amongst others, phantom pains are reported to occur as "crushing", "burning", "itching" or "shooting pains", etc. | | | Innovations in the neurosciences mean that phantom limb pain is increasingly curable. |
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http://phantomlimb.org.uk/
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| | Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology: Publications |
| | Peripheral and electrocortical responses to painful and non-painful stimulation in chronic pain patients, tension headache patients and healthy controls. | | | Knost, B., Flor, H., Birbaumer, N. and Schugens, M. The learned maintenance of pain: muscle tension reduces central nervous system processing of painful stimulation in chronic pain patients. | | | Wiech, K., Preissl, H., Birbaumer, N. Neuroimaging of chronic pain: phantom limb and musculoskeletal pain. |
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http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/medizinischepsychologie/publicat.htm
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| | Phantom Limb Pain |
| | This is a webforum to discuss and comment on Phantom Limb Pain. | | | Phantom pain after loosing a hand (11/19/97) 10:34 AM | | | Found Help for Phantom Pain (2/14/99) 9:22 PM |
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http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/forum/PhantomLimbPainMenu.html
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