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And he started giggling, he says, "I can see my phantom."

Now, I said, "Move your normal hand and phantom."

He said, "Oh, I can't move my phantom.

And he says, "Oh my God, my phantom is moving again.

So, I said, OK, this proves my theory about learned paralysis and the critical role of visual input, but I'm not going to get a Nobel Prize for getting somebody to move his phantom limb.

He said, "No, no, no, you know this phantom I've had for the last 10 years?

He said, "No, last three days, I've not had a phantom arm and therefore no phantom elbow pain, no clenching, no phantom forearm pain, all those pains are gone away.

But the problem is I still have my phantom fingers dangling from the shoulder, and your box doesn't reach."

"So, can you change the design and put it on my forehead, so I can, you know, do this and eliminate my phantom fingers?"

It's getting messages from vision saying the phantom is back.

And your motor command saying there is an arm, and, because of this conflict, the brain says, to hell with it, there is no phantom, there is no arm, right?

Now, this technique has been tried on dozens of patients by other groups in Helsinki, so it may prove to be valuable as a treatment for phantom pain, and indeed, people have tried it for stroke rehabilitation.

That's communicated to the bionic limb, so when I think about moving my phantom limb, the robot tracks those movement desires.

It's a wave that has a certain probability of being able to permeate through a solid wall, like a phantom leaping through to the other side.

Once, I was perceived to be an inanimate object, a mindless phantom of a boy in a wheelchair.

Another phenomenon called phantom itching can occur in patients who've had amputations.

What's going on with those people, the phantom 40 percent that are troubled but don't understand why?

They can flex their phantom fingers and sometimes even feel the chafe of a watchband or the throb of an ingrown toenail.

And astonishingly enough, occasionally even people born without a limb can feel a phantom.

So what causes phantom limb sensations?

To fully understand phantom limbs and phantom pain, we have to consider the entire pathway from limb to brain.

This increased representation can lead to phantom pain.

Over time, this representation may shrink and the phantom limb may shrink with it.

But phantom limb sensations don’t necessarily disappear on their own.

Treatment for phantom pain usually requires a combination of physical therapy, medications for pain management, prosthetics, and time.

A technique called mirror box therapy can be very helpful in developing the range of motion and reducing pain in the phantom limb.

The patient places the phantom limb into a box behind a mirror and the intact limb in front of the mirror.

This tricks the brain into seeing the phantom rather than just feeling it.

And phantom limbs may in turn help patients conceptualize prosthetics as extensions of their bodies and manipulate them intuitively.

There are still many questions about phantom limbs.

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