Thank the weird human brain for mirror therapy.
Phantom Limb Pain
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Verito@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Works on chronic non amputation injuries too
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah, I see you’re a man of culture as well.
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
MagnyusG@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Every night I can feel my leg… and my arm… even my fingers…
meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
C3P0 was right!
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 3 weeks ago
So it’s a bad idea to get ones limb amputated unnecessarily?
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I do not recommend it, but you do you
uuldika@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Where is the meme?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Memes? Send like just a medical list
Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Looks painful. Maybe someone should tell them it isn’t real.