Phantom Pain following Limb Amputation in a Paraplegic
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
- Vol. 39 (2) , 89-93
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000287726
Abstract
The pain of the phantom limb remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. A case is reported in which a paraplegic patient with full sensory ablation below T11 experienced phantom limb pain only after actual amputation of one of his legs. Evidently, the cause in this case could only be central in origin. Visual appreciation seems to be an important step in this process.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit: