Help for People Suffering Pain After Limb Amputation

January 28, 2013. "Patients who undergo amputation often feel sensation where the missing limb was, as if it's still there. The syndrome is called phantom limb. It's as if the body can't accept that a terrible trauma has occurred. The mind is trying to make the body complete again. Patients who experience phantom limb report many different sensations, but by far the most common is .. .pain."
At one point, the pain is so severe that Arizona asks assistant surgeon, Alex Karev, to stab her in the prosthetic foot to relieve the pain. She eventually confides to surgical chief Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) that she thinks she is going crazy, but he recognizes the problem from his military service and will help her find therapies that may make things easier.
What is phantom limb pain?
Tingly
Prickly
Numb
Cold
Stabbing

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