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21. Phantom Pain

Pain Practice, 2011
Abstract:  Phantom pain is pain caused by elimination or interruption of sensory nerve impulses by destroying or injuring the sensory nerve fibers after amputation or deafferentation. The reported incidence of phantom limb pain after trauma, injury or peripheral vascular diseases is 60% to 80%.
Maarten van Kleef   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Phantom pain: A sensitivity analysis

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2004
To analyse how decisions to dichotomise the frequency and impediment of phantom pain into absent and present influence the outcome of studies by performing a sensitivity analysis on an existing database.Five hundred and thirty-six subjects were recruited from the database of an orthopaedic workshop and filled out a questionnaire in which the following ...
Borsje, Susanne   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Phantom-limb pain

The Lancet, 1997
Preparation of this chapter was supported by a Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC) Scholar Award and MRC Grant #MT-12052.
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Phantom Tooth Pain

Journal of Endodontics, 1978
Phantom tooth pain (PTP) is a phenomenon of persistent pain in teeth. Neither endodontic therapy, apicoectomy, nor extraction of the offending teeth renders the region free of pain. A hypothesis that PTP is another example of the more familiar phantom limb phenomenon is presented, along with case reports.
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PAINFUL PHANTOM FOOT

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1947
To the Editor:— In an article entitled Abolition of Painful Phantom Foot by Resection of the Sensory Cortex, by Drs. Echols and Colcough, which appeared in the August 23 issue ofThe Journalthe statement appeared "He continued to complain of numbness and pain, however, and in October 1943 requested that his leg be amputated.
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Phantom Pain

Pain Practice, 2011
Phantom pain is pain caused by elimination or interruption of sensory nerve impulses by destroying or injuring the sensory nerve fibers after amputation or deafferentation. The reported incidence of phantom limb pain after trauma, injury or peripheral vascular diseases is 60% to 80%.
Tabitha A. Washington   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

[Phantom perception and phantom pain].

Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie, 1992
"Phantom limb" is a well-known phenomenon following loss or amputation of a limb. The limb still seems to be present, although it is no longer there, but the sensation is not associated with pain. Less well-known are the phenomena of autosomatognosis and pain after the loss of other parts of the body such as the genital parts or after partial or ...
B, Frank, E, Lorenzoni
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Phantom sensation, phantom pain, and stump pain.

Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 1993
Phantom sensation, phantom pain, and stump pain have been known since antiquity. For millenia, sensations in the missing body part were thought to be of psychic origin. During this century the psychic explanations have gradually given way to physiological explanations.
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