In medical approach for phantom pain management, pharmacological techniques are often used in conjunction with other treatment options to reduce doses of pain medications needed, but rarely are discontinued completely. These approaches are employed by prosthetics and orthopedic experts and doctors.
Phantom pain can be managed using both medications and non-medications approaches. Therefore, several approaches have been used to treat and manage phantom pain sensation. For some people, they get over phantom pain over time without treatment, while for others, managing phantom pains can be quite difficult. The managements of Phantom pain are of various ways to alleviate the pains from an amputee having this sensation due to loss of a limb. Touch, urination or defecation, cigarette smoking, exposure to cold, are some of the things that triggers phantom pain. Sensations can be described as shooting, stabbing, boring, squeezing, throbbing or burning. While the sensation often affects the part of the limb farthest from the body, such as the foot of an amputated leg, other body parts closer to the brain, such as the arm or hand can still experience such phantom pain sensations. The onset of this pain most often occurs soon after amputation which may come and go, but can also linger. However, phantom limb sensations can also occur due to nerve avulsion or spinal cord injury, this sensation can also be originated from the brain. In other words the limb is gone but the sensation is real. Is a sensation of pain associated with a part of the body that has been removed due to amputation or congenital limb defects. Phantom pain is a perception that an individual experiences when a limb or an organ is not physically part of the body.
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