phantom pain

collocation in English

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phantom
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈfæn.təm/us
/ˈfæn.t̬əm/
like ...
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pain
noun[C or U]
uk
/peɪn/us
/peɪn/
a feeling of physical suffering caused by injury ...
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(Definition ofphantomandpainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There is the coming to terms with the traumatic injury; there are psychological aspects, which sometimes get neglected; there is thephantompainthat has to be fought.
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They concluded that the benefits of mirror therapy appear to be limited to patients who suffer from cramping and muscular-typephantompain.
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The prosthetic limb is built to work-around the contaminated nerve endings, but increases hisphantompain.
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A slightly different sensation known asphantompaincan also occur in people who are born without limbs, and people who are paralyzed.
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Phantompainmay arise from abnormal reorganization in the neuromatrix to a pre-existing pain state.
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Neuromas have been associated withphantompainin human amputees and have therefore been linked to chronic pain in beak trimmed birds.
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The doctor calls itphantompainand leaves.
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In limb amputees, some, but not all, studies have found a correlation between preoperative pain in the affected limb and postoperativephantompain.
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Phantompainrefers to dysesthetic feelings in individuals who are paralyzed or who were born without limbs.
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Phantompainsensations are described as perceptions that an individual experiences relating to a limb or an organ that is not physically part of the body.
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Davis has also worked onphantompain.
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This is because patients with congenital limb deficiency can sometimes, although rarely, experience phantom pains.
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Phantom pains occur when nerves that would normally innervate the missing limb cause pain.
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Although stump neuromas contribute to phantom pains, they are not the sole cause.
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Opposition to the neuromatrix theory exists largely because it fails to explain why relief from phantom sensations rarely eliminates phantom pains.
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Most treatments do not take into account the mechanisms underlying phantom pains, and are therefore ineffective.
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Wolverine also admits to feeling phantom pains for weeks or months after healing from his injuries.
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Little is known about the true mechanism causing phantom pains, and many theories highly overlap.
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Historically, phantom pains were thought to originate from neuromas located at the stump tip.
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Par believed that phantom pains occur in the brain (the consensus of the medical community today) and not in remnants of the limb.
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