Phantom Pain by jasper stamps

How does phantom pain affect people, and how does it start?

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-20 14:47:04 UTC

How cortical shifts affect phantom pains

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-20 14:53:20 UTC

Cause and effect

Where the phantom pain affects you

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-20 14:53:32 UTC

It hurts at the stump of the amputation site because of the brain sending signals to the missing limb
the pain can be reduced by changing your brain's beliefs, so it can realize, "oh, my entire left leg isn't there, silly me".
It affects you after an amputation, while your brain still believe that the limb is still present

Chronological

How does your brain cause phantom pain.

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-20 14:53:45 UTC

Amputating a limb is like remodeling your house, it's completely new for your brain
The phantom pain comes from this "remodeling", where your brain still think the old "house" is still there. It sends those signals or the missing limb, but there is no limb and it causes pain
The big change ( cortical shift) is the main cause of phantom pain
cause and effect

Phantom limb pain: a case of maladaptive CNS plasticity?

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-20 15:10:03 UTC

*Phantom pain is from reorganization of the brain map.

*Phantom pain is also from a body image illusion of your brain still thinking your limb is still present

*using a mirror to change your brain's beliefs can help to reduce the pain

*the pain is greater depending on the pathological alteration

*Rats with spinal cord injuries also felt phantom pain.

Gale Article

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-20 15:10:29 UTC

Article organizer: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lTtnMdngADcUWiM6vFjcxq_jbxzXaXaycZV0kfKonLU/edit?tab=t.0

Central Idea: Phantom Pain is caused by your brain sending signals to your missing limbs.

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-21 15:07:51 UTC

Confusing your brain

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-25 14:16:38 UTC

The changes in your body mess with your brain, and the residing phantom pain is caused by the confusion

The internal belief in your brain that your limb is still there causes the pains

The phantom pain is from the non changed belief that a cortical shift didn't happen

cause and effect

Nerve damage

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-25 22:22:33 UTC

The damage to your nerves can cause the pain to happen, because of your brain sending signals to the damaged nerves and them feeling the pain.

Beliefs not being altered

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-25 22:25:00 UTC

The belief of your limb still being present can make your brain send signals to that missing limbs causing the pain.

Beliefs are important because even if you don't know, there is an internal belief that all your limbs are there

How the phantom pain is caused

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-25 22:30:15 UTC

It's caused because of your brain sending signals to parts of your body that aren't present anymore.

How to dampen the pain

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-25 22:38:36 UTC

You can dampen it by using a mirror to trick your brain, and it makes your brain remap and dampens the pain.

what the problem is

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-26 02:40:48 UTC

The problem with your brain if you have phantom pain is it is basically hallucinating. Your brain is purely going off beliefs, and isn't taking in the new information because it doesn't want to feel uncertain about it's beliefs.

How it hurts you

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-26 02:52:29 UTC

It hurts you by sending nerve signals to your missing limbs, which aren't there anymore.

Where it hurts

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-26 02:54:23 UTC

The pain hurts you depending on where the limb was amputated and how much your brain needs to remap, thing like a finger, because of touch will cause more pain than a toe. The finger, because it is so much more complex will need more change.

How your beliefs affect it

jrstamps1 — 2024-11-26 03:12:10 UTC

Your beliefs affect phantom pain by being the primary cause of how it start