Characteristics of phantom limb pain Up to 98% of all patients with limb amputations experience a sensation in their phantom limb, such as a warm or cold feeling, an itching sensation, pressure, and even sense of position, shortly after losing a limb [1]. In most amputees, the sensations ...
The relation between limb dominance, acceptance of disability, and the phantom limb phenomenon Examined 2 hypotheses regarding the phantom limb sensation (PLS). One predicted that the frequency of PLS would be greater for the dominant than the nondom... M Almagor,Y Jaffe,J Lomranz - 《Journal...
The results suggested that phantom limb pain might be associated with cortical activation involving the frontal, temporal, or parietal cortex, and it may imply the possibility of the existence of an ascending polysynaptic pathway that conveys the uncomfortable phantom limb sensation to the cerebral ...
This occurs after the amputation of a limb, wherein the remaining fibres transmit to the cortex the mode of sensation for which they were specialised, despite the lack of somatic receptors at the beginning of the afferent pathway. However, the afferent pathway ends at the same cortex area as...