Under a phantom pain refers to a nerve pain in a body part that is no longer available. Usually this pain appears in the amputation of arms or legs, and occurs most frequently when the body part in question already existed before chronic pain or have vascular disease.
This may prevent phantom pain by dividing the amputation already numbed nerve circuits. The reason for such phantom pain is not yet fully understood. But we know now that they occur in the affected nerve itself.
The phantom pain usually occurs on climate-and lasts for minutes to several days here. This pain is usually treated by pain specialists, often a stay in a pain clinic is required. One way to treat phantom limb pain is the pain medication. These are usually given for acute attacks of pain anticonvulsants, often aided by the administration of antidepressants.
The pain may also be addressed by surgical procedures. Here, then, for example lying in the spinal cord pain pathways transected. In most pain handles the different methods are combined. There is often among the patients, a pain killer addiction, so initially a painkiller withdrawal must be initiated. Good results in phantom pain are in pain handles with a permanent blockade of pain using an implanted catheter achieved.
Tags: chronic pain, Phantom Pain
