Thank the weird human brain for mirror therapy.
Phantom Limb Pain
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Verito@lemm.ee 1 month ago
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Works on chronic non amputation injuries too
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah, I see you’re a man of culture as well.
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
MagnyusG@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Every night I can feel my leg… and my arm… even my fingers…
meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
C3P0 was right!
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 1 month ago
So it’s a bad idea to get ones limb amputated unnecessarily?
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I do not recommend it, but you do you
uuldika@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
there’s a rare mental illness called Body Integrity Dysphoria which makes people want to amputate a limb. They have less phantom pain than ordinary amputees, supposedly.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Define unnecessary.
Issue is, people with Body Integrity Dysphoria might feel extreme discomfort from having a cartain limb (or more), those who gotten said limb amputated got their life improved. They still sometimes suffer from phantom limb pain, but often was an acceptable alternative to having said limb.
Even worse is, eugenicists often think even medically necessary amputations are unjustified, since “a disabled man is just as good as a dead man”.
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Where is the meme?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Memes? Send like just a medical list
Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Looks painful. Maybe someone should tell them it isn’t real.