Re: Question about Hypothetical Type of Thermal Injury. Explained

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From: Randy Poe
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:07

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Guy Fawkes wrote:
> I have a mate who suffered a brachial plexus lesion after an accident,
> and when the arm withered went for voluntary amputation.
>
> the amputation saved the hassle of the awkward bit of "baggage"
> attached to his right shoulder and always getting in the way.
>
> the amputation made no difference whatsoever to the pain, which is
> considerable.
>
> his SO is a senior medical person here (UK) so he always had the best
> treatments and cutting edge stuff, just last year or so "they" (meaning
> doctors and consultants) accepted, as a result of completely new tests,
> that the pain he was feeling was in fact "real" pain and not "phantom"
> pain, as pretty much 99.999% of doctors prior to these tests
> insisted... "it's all in your head"

I thought "phantom pain" was real -- actual signals being sent
along actual nerves which no longer end where they used to.
The signals just don't originate where the brain is interpreting
them as originating. But the signals are really there, nevertheless.
Sort of like injecting a packet into a network with a fake
originating IP address.

I never heard phantom pain called psychosomatic.

                 - Randy

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