the feeling of pain in the missing limb. This pain may feel like stabbing, burning, squeezing or unnatural positioning.
Pain or other unpleasant feeling felt in a missing (phantom) body part.
Pain that appears to come from an area where pain cannot actually be sensed, e.g., from an amputated limb, or below the level of an SCI.
Pain that develops after an amputation. To the patient, the pain feels like it is coming from the missing body part.
pain that remains after the perceived location has been removed, such as pain perceived in a foot after the leg has been amputated
Pain that was in limb prior to amputation, patient still feels the pain after limb is removed.
Pain or discomfort following amputation that feels as if it comes from the missing limb.
Pain, which seems to originate in the portion of the limb, which was removed.
Phantom pain, also called deafferentation pain, anesthesia dolorosa, or denervation pain, is pain that is felt in a part of the body (usually an extremity) that either no longer exists due to amputation or is insensate as a result of nerve severance. It is often described as a burning sensation, though individual accounts vary. This pain does not originate from the limb itself, as such would be impossible in these cases, but is instead the result of the brain receiving messages from the spinal cord which it interprets as pain coming from the affected limb.
