When subjects first started complaining of pain in their “phantom limb”, doctors were very surprised. How could someone be feeling sensations from a limb, which was completely absent from the body (Lahey, 2009)? Researchers soon found reasoning behind these claims of pain. The nerve endings of the area of amputation continue to send messages to the brain, most commonly in the form of pain, that allow the brain to falsely believe that the limb is still present (Schreinberg, 2010). In addition to this, the efficiency of the pain gates go down, so theoretically, pain that could be emanating from one’s face could actually be sensed as pain coming from the missing limb. Along with pain, several other sensations are felt in the phantom limb such as cramping, tingling, heat, and cold. Basically, every sensation that one would feel in an existing limb could in turn be felt in their phantom limb (Mays, 2009).…