THE PAIN WITH NO NAME. I met an elderly leg amputee. I asked him, “Do you have phantom pain?” He laughed merrily as though this were an especially clever question, and said, “You know, I suffered from phantom pain for my whole life, but only found out that there was a name for it just a few years ago!” And he described intermittent nighttime episodes of horrible burning, stabbing pain that he’d had in his “foot” since he was a boy, before a prosthetist finally explained the phenomenon to him. Decades of health care professionals had never talked to him about it, even though they must have known — phantom limb pain is extraordinarily well-documented, and one of the most fascinating areas in pain research. ~ Paul Ingraham, SaveYourself.ca This is an excerpt, a new-ish ancedote in my trigger points e-book, to help explain the phenomenon of referred pain: saveyourself.ca/tutorials/trigger-points.php
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