When someone loses a limb or part of a limb, they still experience pain where it used to be? I've not seen studies on this, but is the pain all in the mind or does it show that energy was indeed there?
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Greenwood
2007-07-27 13:50:12 · 11 answers · asked by Greenwood 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes..psychosomatic...thank you.
2007-07-27 13:55:38 · update #1
I posted this question here because if it is indeed energy of a missing limb, then what does that say? Possibly, we are made of energy that survives without the physical part of the body needing to be present.
2007-07-27 14:03:22 · update #2
I think it has to do with some of both. I am sure ther is a psychological component, but there is energy there and pain can reside in that energy until it is cleared.
2007-07-27 13:55:54 · answer #1 · answered by NONAME 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Phantom pain is not an "energy" thing.
It is because your brain is "hard wired" to the circuitry of the nerve pathways. Once a limb is lost and more than a few small nerves are cut the brain still "thinks" that the nerve system that is supposed to continue the rest of the way down is still there. It has "felt" that messaging for years & years & continues feeling things even tho there isn't anything physically there anymore.
Yes, there are studies on this.
I have had a lot of neurology classes.
2007-07-27 21:24:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't this a question for BIOLOGY or MEDICINE? Why do you ask in R&S?
Scientists aren't sure what causes it, but one possibility is that the nerves that serviced the missing limbs are trying to find something to do. Another is that the brain hasn't updated its map of the body to account for the missing limb.
2007-07-27 20:59:00 · answer #3 · answered by RickySTT, EAC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. Although the limb is gone, the nerve fibers that ran through it are present. When those fibers trigger, you sense them as the body part where they used to provide sensory innervation. It is not "all in the mind", nor is it a mystical energy. It is simple physiology.
2007-07-27 20:57:37 · answer #4 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Phantom pain is very real. I have a friend who has experienced phantom pain, and even phantom itching.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/phantom-pain/DS00444/DSECTION=3
Researchers think phantom pain may be caused by one or more of the following:
- Changes in nerve circuitry.
- Pain before amputation.
- Blood clot.
- Neuroma.
- Other factors.
[For details, visit the Web site.]
Another resource:
http://hubel.sfasu.edu/courseinfo/SL98/phantom4.html
2007-07-27 21:14:47 · answer #5 · answered by YY4Me 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple,the pain indeed is real....lets say you lose your hand,the hand may not be there yet,the nerve endings from the hand,moving up the arm,to the brain is still present,there for you are still able to feel the nerves that were attached to your hand.
2007-07-27 22:55:16 · answer #6 · answered by deerwoman777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OH, this is very true...and I have experienced it many times as a RN...
Its incredible...one time a lady I had never
taken care of, had me looking all over for her penny Loafers, and could I fix them because they where hurting her feet...guess what...she had
no shoes or legs above her knee...another time I had a man telling me his foot was itching him so bad, he couldn't stand it...
Phantom Pain is real.
2007-07-27 20:57:43 · answer #7 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes the energy is still there
I have seen some ( not many ) studies on this
and the limb is still there in the aura
2007-07-27 20:55:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think it's called psychosomatic. and I have no idea whether the pain is imaginary.
2007-07-27 20:53:55 · answer #9 · answered by Sam 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fascinating, isn't it?
Energy.
2007-07-27 20:53:58 · answer #10 · answered by mrs O 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋