phantom limb
Feeling missing arm
Phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached to the body.
People with phantom limbs often feel pain, itching, or movement in the absent part: The phantom limb kept him awake at night.
The phenomenon reveals how the brain maintains its map of the body even after physical loss.
One without a limb
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
- stumpTrunk base after felling
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- prosthetistArtificial limb technician
orthotics · mobility aid · occupational therapy · physical therapy · adaptation · recovery · congenital · traumatic
Slight stinging sensation
- itchingIrritating skin sensation
- proprioceptionBody's spatial self-awareness
- kinesthesiaSense of bodily movement
- tactileOf the touching sense
touch · pressure · temperature · movement · clenching · positioning · telescoping · remapping
Brain's self-rewiring ability
- cortexOrgan's external tissue
- homunculusArtificial miniature human
- brain mappingCharting neural structures
- reorganizationChanging how something's arranged
maladaptive · central nervous system · peripheral nerve · neuron · synapse · signal · afferent · efferent
amputee
One without a limb
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
- stumpTrunk base after felling
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
prosthetist · orthotics · mobility aid · occupational therapy · physical therapy · adaptation · recovery · congenital · traumatic · surgical
tingling
Slight stinging sensation
- itchingIrritating skin sensation
- proprioceptionBody's spatial self-awareness
- kinesthesiaSense of bodily movement
tactile · touch · pressure · temperature · movement · clenching · positioning · telescoping · remapping · somatosensory
neuroplasticity
Brain's self-rewiring ability
- cortexOrgan's external tissue
- homunculusArtificial miniature human
- brain mappingCharting neural structures
reorganization · maladaptive · central nervous system · peripheral nerve · neuron · synapse · signal · afferent · efferent · sensorimotor
burning
Combustion in progress
throbbing · electric · crushing · aching · chronic · intractable · episodic · neuroma · hypersensitivity · trigger
- rehabilitationrehab, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, inpatient rehab
- Hallucinationsvisual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucination, auditory hallucination, seeing things
- neurological symptomsnumbness, tremor, paralysis, aphasia, ataxia
- perception errorsmisperception, illusion, optical illusion, visual distortion, blind spot
- war ailmentstrench foot, trench fever, shell shock, combat fatigue, battle fatigue
- phantom sensationsparesthesia, sensory memory
limb, fantasy, limbs, phantom, limber, phenomenon, limbed, phantasm, phantasmagoria