The Nervous System’s Role in Phantom Limb Pain

Ajouté : 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Phantom limb pain is absolutely a real thing. It's the experience of pain in a body part that no longer exists. So, it's associated with people that have had a often traumatic amputation and the brain can sometimes freeze in the moment of the injury. So, this is a another case study of a motorcyclist who reports, even though he's bilateral below knee amp, I think, he constantly feels like he's in that hip knee flexion in in that bike position with no matter what position he's in and can still actually feel his feet and feel pain and often describe that crushing pain.

[00:00:42]And that's because even though you've lost the body part, you haven't lost the representation in your brain.