The Phantom And The Amputated Arm Summary

Particular with Dr Ramachandran work he as figured out how to numbed the phantom sensation and the phantom pain. In his research he used a patience that noticed the entire known symptom to the syndrome of the phantom limb. Ramachandran shared a fascinated story with us about a patience that had a amputated limb and in just few short moments the patient start “experiencing a vivid phantom arm” it was notice to be nothing unusual at first but after a few weeks a particular “gnawing sensation in his phantom”. \textit{The patience was quite puzzle to what was happening. He asked his physician why this was happening, doctor didn't know and couldn't help. Finally, out of curiosity, the fellow asked, "Whatever happened to my arm after you removed it?" "Good question," replied the doctor, "you need to ask the surgeon."
Usually we incinerate them." "Well, what did you do with this particular arm? With my arm?" They looked at their records and said, "You know, it's funny. We didn't incinerate it. We sent it to pathology." The man called the pathology lab. "Where is my arm?" he asked again. They said, "Well, we had too many arms, so we just buried it in the garden, out behind the hospital." They took him to the garden and showed him where the arm was buried. When he exhumed it, he found it was crawling with maggots and exclaimed, "Well, maybe that's why I'm feeling these bizarre sensations in my arm." So he took the limb and incinerated it. And from that day on, his phantom pain