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Title: Phantom Limbs
Description: Expanding on what causes Phontom Limb pains, how it happens and which parts of the brain and body are being used when phantom pain is being created, incorporating your neurosignature, and neuromatrix.
Description: Expanding on what causes Phontom Limb pains, how it happens and which parts of the brain and body are being used when phantom pain is being created, incorporating your neurosignature, and neuromatrix.
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Phantom Limbs
People who have lost an appendage or organ/ tissue perceive the limb/organ tissue as though it were
still there
This phenomenon is often associated with great pain this the phantom lib/organ (70% of amputees)
The phantoms are very real to amputees vivid sensory qualities (pressure, warmth, cold, and various
pain) and precise location in space perceived as a part of ones self
During body movements, the phantom lib moves in perfect coordination with the body and other limbs
suggest that the somatosensory cortex area maintains connections with the motor areas of the frontal
lobe and cerebellum
Amputation is not essential for the occurrence pf a phantom, brachial plexus avulsion nerves of arm
ripped out
Treatments of pain have concentrated on stopping sensory signals from remaining nerves on the stump
from reaching the thalamus and going to the somatosensory cortex
This procedure reduces pain for a short period of time but does not abolish the phantom limb
Newest research points to the cause of phantom limbs being due to brain areas connected through a
network or neuromatrix:
Your body image, how your body feels, where your body is in sPace, how you perceive it, how it feels
when you move
All constructs of this network of neurons spanning your cortex (specifically the parietal and frontal
lobe)
Essentially, the feeling that all parts of the body are uniquely one's own
the phantom limb is perceived as an integral part of ones self (even though physically it is not real)
however, people who suffer lesions/ damage to the parietal lobe deny that a side of the body is part of
themselves and even ignore the space on the side
Evident that the brain processes that underlie the experience of our bodies must import a special signal
that provides the basis or experience of ones self
The neuromatrix is genetically designed and altered through sensory experiences
Phantoms are experienced by children who are born without a limb (these change size and shape over
time)
Neuroplasticity allows for reorganization
The neuromatrix responds to sensory inputs from your body and generates a characteristic pattern of
impulses that make up you body image, neurosignature
...
Without feedback from
the limb, the neurosignature gets stronger in an attempt to move the limb= output message results in
pain
Title: Phantom Limbs
Description: Expanding on what causes Phontom Limb pains, how it happens and which parts of the brain and body are being used when phantom pain is being created, incorporating your neurosignature, and neuromatrix.
Description: Expanding on what causes Phontom Limb pains, how it happens and which parts of the brain and body are being used when phantom pain is being created, incorporating your neurosignature, and neuromatrix.