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Phantom feeling
My father is an amputee. He complains of phantom feeling even after 10 years of surgery
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Phantom limb is a appreciation of limb being there in an amputee , it's a common problem when an active patient undergoes amputation . Some patients will also experience severe pain at times . This happens because your physical absence of leg is not read by brain , it still thinks leg is there .so this is more a psychological issue rather than a physical issue .
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medical treatment and counselling helps and needs a psychiatry consultation
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let him use good prosthesis regularly which should make him better also support from family that this is not abnormal will happen to most of the amputees
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