Phantom Lim pain and mirror treatment

Question 1

Define phantom limb pain

Answer 1

Phantom and pain is when someone who has phantom limb experiences, pain, and limb that has been amputated and therefore no longer exists

Question 2

What is the percentage of people that experienced phantom pain

Answer 2

80%

Question 3

Is it more common in women or men

Answer 3

It is more common in women than men

Question 4

what are the causes?

Answer 4

The cause of PLP is unknown, but can be explained to some degree by Mix signals from the brain

Question 5

Explain how mixed signals could be a cause

Answer 5

After the limb is amputated areas of the spinal chords and the brain lose the Norman input that they get from the missing them and adjust this in an unpredictable way this adjustment can trigger that there is something wrong and that needs to pain. The signet is may be rewired to another part of the sensory circuit.

Question 6

How is phantom Lim pain described?

Answer 6

Shooting burning or cramping

Question 7

What is mirror treatment?

Answer 7

Marriage treatment is the treatment that has been found effective for people with PLP it uses a mirror to create the illusion of the amputated leg, still being there by placing it on the opposite of the limb in front of the mirror with the amputated leg behind it

Question 8

What did RAMACHADRA and ROGERS suggest

Answer 8

Suggested that the theory behind success of new treatment lies, and the reasons why PLP occurs in the first place this suggests that it occurs due to miscommunication problems in the brain with the neurons which had originally commanded muscles in the phantom of them still exist can send out sickness such as a custom of the lake when the signing or the command has not Been made than dismissal, communication caused the conflict known as negative feedback mere treatment uses tricks to check the brain through the visual system telling the brain limb is moving, but it isn’t this breaks the negative feedback loop