phantom limb pain
Absent appendage ache
Phantom limb pain is the sensation of pain in a limb that has been amputated.
The brain continues to receive signals—or interprets their absence—as if the missing arm or leg were still there.
The pain can range from mild tingling to severe cramping or burning: Years after losing his leg, he still experienced phantom limb pain.
- amputationSurgical limb removal
- stumpTrunk base after felling
- tinglingSlight stinging sensation
- burningCombustion in progress
- ghostApparition of the dead
sensation · nerve · nerve endings · prosthetic · missing · ache · throb · neuroma · central nervous system · brain · mapping · body image · mirror · mirror box · therapy · grief · loss · residual
- pain conditionsmyalgia, fibromyalgia, arthritis, neuralgia, neuropathy
- phantom sensationsparesthesia, sensory memory
- painache, agony, hurt, hurting, suffering
- War Woundsshrapnel wound, shrapnel wounds, gunshot wound, gunshot wounds, bullet wound