Phantom pain is pain you feel when you have an amputated limb. Phantom pain is most common 3-6 months after surgery. There are cures for phantom pain one called the mirror therapy. A lot of doctors thought phantom pain was a psychological problem but experts now know that all comes from the brain and the spinal cord.
There are three different theories that people used to explain phantom pains
1) Stress and shock in the body caused phantom pains, along with ghosts. This theory was abandoned when more research was available.
Reasons two and three are based on actual information.
2) Central cause: this means changes in the brain (specifically in the cortex/thalamus). Let me explain further, say your leg got severed. The area in your brain that was in charge of sending a stimulus to your leg because engulfed by other parts of the part, like for example the part of the brain responsible for sending a stimulus to your cheek. As a result, when a person who has lost their leg touches their cheek they feel their leg because the brain part responsible for leg movement is now entwined with the brain part responsible for cheek stimulus.
3) Although the leg is severed the cell body of the sensory neuron is still intact with the body and therefore can still send messages to the brain.
There is still much research being done in this field and we still cannot explain why the brain changes. For more information you should read up on the body's nervous system.
Yes, ghost is like a phantom pain because it is the past memory of a real or imagined person but seen, heard or felt in the present as ghost. It is like experiencing pain in the amputated part of the limb because it still has the representation in the brain.
Please also see : What is a dream?
Painful sensations include burning, throbbing, or stabbing in nature. Touching the remaining stump may elicit sensations from the phantom. The quality of the pain may change over time and may not remain constant.
No, phantom pain is the feeling of pain in a body part that has been amputated or removed surgically. (You feel pain in a limb that was removed, hence, phantom pain) Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a chronic progressive disease characterized by severe pain, but not in a phantom limb. It usually occurs near the site of an injury, generally minor.
Persistent pain in the stump or pain in the phantom limb is experienced by most amputees to some degree. Treatment of phantom limb pain is difficult.
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The abnormal "phantom" sensations and pain are usually located in the distal parts of the missing limb. Pain and tingling may be felt in the fingers and hand, and in the lower limbs, in the toes and the feet.
People often feel phantom limb pain after having a limb amputated.Many people enjoyed watching Phantom of the Opera.
Nonpainful sensations may include changes in temperature, itching, tingling, shock-like sensations, or perceived motion of the phantom limb. The limb may feel as if it is retracting into the stump in a phenomenon called telescoping
You did not specify where the said phantom should have been.The word 'phantom' is usually used when describing something unreal, yet realistic. A phantom pain for example, a person suffers from pain on his fingers, eventhough the hand has been amputated. This is very real pain, as the pain synapses still flow towards the hand, eventhough it is not there anymore.But I think you might be referring to a ghost. Usually any ghost or phantom phenomena can be explained by scientific means to be something else than a genuine thing. So I would be leaning towards a 'no'.
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