A phantom limb is one of the more strangely horrifying side-effects of surgery. A phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated (or otherwise missing) limb/other appendage is still attached to one's body. But often the phantom limb feels tense or painful. What can you do about pain in a limb that isn't there? What else can go wrong in that limb?
A woman who was born with only three fingers on her right hand, which was later amputated, found out in a strange way. Well, something didn't go wrong, exactly. It's more like something went freakishly right. Her two missing fingers "grew back" on her phantom limb after the real one was amputated, which shows something about how our brain recognizes what we "should" have in/on our body. Her new fingers came back shorter, but a mirror box was used to lengthen them.
The article did not mention any pain in her phantom hand.
A woman who was born with only three fingers on her right hand, which was later amputated, found out in a strange way. Well, something didn't go wrong, exactly. It's more like something went freakishly right. Her two missing fingers "grew back" on her phantom limb after the real one was amputated, which shows something about how our brain recognizes what we "should" have in/on our body. Her new fingers came back shorter, but a mirror box was used to lengthen them.
The article did not mention any pain in her phantom hand.
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