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Phantom and Stump Pain (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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Phantom and Stump Pain (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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The phenomenon of phantom limb was described in medical literature
at least as early as 1545 by Ambroise Pare, according to the notes
in the translation of Lemos' dissertation, "On the Continuing Pain
of an Amputated Limb", by Price and Twombly [9]. This strange
experience was brought to public attention by a popular essay
anonymously published 1866 by Mitchell concerning the story of
George Dedlow, a quadriamputee who described his invisible limbs
[7]. In 1871 Mitchell wrote under his own name, and was the. first
to use the term "phantom limb" [8]. In this work, he also corrected
some erroneous beliefs that had arisen from his 1866 essay [13].
Most amputees report feeling a phantom limb almost immediately
after amputation of an arm or a leg [11]. It is a positive
sensation, usually described as tingling or numbness, which is not
painful. The most distal parts of the limb, particulary the digits,
thumb, and index, are the strongest and most persisting phantom
sites, and may be the only parts to appear even after removal of a
whole limb. The elbow or knee is sometimes involved, the forearm or
lower leg rarely, and the upper arm and thigh almost never [5]. The
phantom thus appears to consist predominantly of those parts which
have the most extensive representa tion in the thalamus and in the
cerebral cortex.
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