Phantom limb phenomena

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For more than a hundred years, physicians have published accounts of people who perceive an amputated arm or leg as if it were still there. Many amputees feel burning, cramping, or shooting pains in these phantom limbs. Doctors explained this by saying that the patients went through a denial period due to the trauma of loosing a body-part. Experts have discovered in the last decade that the sensations which the amputees have been reporting, is …

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