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Phantom sensations and pains.
Phantom sensations arise in the absence of a limb or part of it. The person experiences a sense of the presence of a lost limb and tries to use it. Psychologically, phantom sensations are difficult and painful to bear.
Phantom sensations are often accompanied by painful sensations - phantom pains in a non-existent limb. The causes of phantom pain are associated with impaired healing processes of intersected peripheral nerve endings, blood vessels and the formation of foci of chronic inflammation. Inflammation irritates the nerve endings that transmit a signal to the brain, excites parts of the brain and creates persistent foci of irritation in the cerebral cortex, which are broadcast as pain syndrome.
Treatment of phantom pain includes taking sedatives, ganglion blockers, drugs that lower the sensitivity threshold. With the development of neuromas, poorly healing foci of inflammation, obliteration of peripheral vessels, surgical intervention is required with the aim of excising areas with impaired tissue regeneration and pathological healing. In severe cases, sympathectomy is performed - blockade or resection of certain areas of sympathetic nerves (or their nodes) involved in the transmission of a pain signal.
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