You've heard of phantom limb pain?

Phantom limb pain is a common experience of amputees.

The phantom limb they'll say, But doctor, the phantom limb is paralyzed.

Now, why would a phantom limb be paralyzed?

Maybe you can relieve the phantom pain, the phantom cramp.

And you all know what a phantom limb is.

Now, why do you get a paralyzed phantom limb?

Now the astonishing thing is, if you have pain in your phantom limb, you squeeze the other person's hand, massage the other person's hand, that relieves the pain in your phantom hand, almost as though the neuron were obtaining relief from merely watching somebody else being massaged.

He said, No, last three days, I've not had a phantom arm and therefore no phantom elbow pain, no clenching, no phantom forearm pain, all those pains are gone away.

And we approach this problem by considering another curious syndrome called phantom limb.

Phantom Phantom pain is pain felt in a part of the body that has been lost or from which the brain no longer receives signals.

In many cases,the phantom limb aids in adaptation to a prosthesis, as it permits the person to experience proprioception of the prosthetic limb.

So, you have a patient with a phantom limb. If the arm has been removed and you have a phantom, and you watch somebody else being touched, you feel it in your phantom.

As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene.

It consists of a descending limb and an ascending limb.

That's obvious, but the astonishing thing is, the patient then says, Oh my God, my phantom is moving again, and the pain, the clenching spasm, is relieved.

So, I said, OK, this proves my theory about learned paralysis and the critical role of visual input, but I'm not going to get a Nobel Prize for getting somebody to move his phantom limb.

Could you regenerate a limb?

Pain is pain.

Charles Limb Building the musical muscle

Charles Limb Your brain on improv

It was a paralyzed phantom arm.

The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached.

Their pain is your pain.

A mammalian fetus, if it loses a limb during the first trimester of pregnancy, will re grow that limb.

You see the phantom within the aquarium.

One of the things we've found was, about half the patients with phantom limbs claim that they can move the phantom.

... above the limb, yes, it would be difficult ...

This is a newt re growing its limb.

She did Cats and Phantom of the Opera.

The pain of those massacred is our pain!

When somebody's in pain, we pick up the pain.

He's got a small residual limb on one side.

Unfortunately, we don't do great with upper limb prosthetics.

And that scar actually grows out a new limb.

I don't want to go out on a limb.

Long limb threadfin, P. longipes Motomura, Okamoto Iwatsuki, 2001.

Now, I said, Move your normal hand and phantom.

What's beautiful is, you can probably see on the limb there some faint, sort of, wisps of almost smoke rising up from the limb.

I've had patients with the uterus removed hysterectomy who have a phantom uterus, including phantom menstrual cramps at the appropriate time of the month.

Breast pain

Pain management Psychoactive drugs are often prescribed to manage pain.

Now, this technique has been tried on dozens of patients by other groups in Helsinki, so it may prove to be valuable as a treatment for phantom pain, and indeed, people have tried it for stroke rehabilitation.

This is a really basic, basic prosthetic limb under here.

In this tree, there is an apple on every limb.