Which Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain Based on Central Mechanisms is Most Effective? Abstract Phantom limb pain is a common symptom experienced by over 90% of amputees. It’s defined as a painful sensation from a part of the body that no longer exists. There are a variety of methods for treating this neuropathic pain‚ but at the moment there is no specific treatment to tackle the pain completely. A mixture of medications and therapies has been proposed and trialed including drugs‚ surgical treatment
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limb. This feeling‚ referred to as "phantom pain" or "stump hallucination"‚ is a frustrating sensation to an amputee. For some amputees‚ these phantom sensations may be no more than painless distractions of pressure‚ warmth‚ and cold that do not interfere with their everyday lives. Some patients have even reported having phantom pleasures; an "orgasmic" feeling in a missing limb. For the majority of amputees‚ about 50% to 80% (Sherman)‚ they experience phantom pains that vary in classification from
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Phantom movements and pain -an fMRI study in upper limb amputees A Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment was conducted on 14 upper limb amputees who were being compared and assessed with seven fully competent participants. This experiment involved examining the execution of hand and lip movements and imagined movements of the phantom limb or left hand. Fourteen of the participants had part of their upper limb amputated‚ nine of which had lost their right hand. During the experiment
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Phantoms In The Snow Noah is a fifteen year old boy whose parents died of smallpox. He has no choice‚ but to go live with his uncle. He was sent to Camp Hale where his uncle lived and trained. His uncle was part of an elite group of soldiers called Phantoms. They trained to fight in the snow. They used used skis to travel faster and trained as if it was real warfare. Noah wanted to join his uncle‚ so he lied about his age and said he was sixteen. He met many new friends such as Wiley
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DIFFERENCES: 1. A musical have more dancing than opera. Opera rarely needs to dance. 2. A musical is almost always performed in the language of its audience‚ while opera is no words to be speak in the performance of an opera. 3. An opera is drama set to music. In an opera‚ the moods‚ emotions and feelings are heightened. It combined vocal music which includes solos‚ ensembles and chorus and instrumental music which is played by the orchestra with costumes‚ stage action and scenic effects. However
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Political Aspects of Mozart’s Operas Music has been a medium for composers and musicians to express a multitude of feelings‚ concepts‚ ideals and other philosophical matters. This expression of the artists has literally been the push behind music and its creation thousands of years ago‚ and is what still influences music today along with all the time in between (DeNora). Starting with the transition of music from the Renaissance Era‚ music became more and more of a political device (The Birth). One
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Sydney Opera House The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney‚ New South Wales‚ Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon‚ opening in 1973 after a long gestation that had begun with his competition-winning design in 1957. Joseph Cahill’s New South Wales Government gave the go-ahead for work to begin in 1958. The government’s bold decision to select Utzon’s design is often overshadowed by the scandal that followed. The Sydney Opera House
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Art Song and Opera The art song and the opera are two very different genres of music. Franz Schubert wrote the art song The Erlking in 1815. Giacomo Puccini wrote his opera‚ La Boheme‚ in 1896. Richard Wagner wrote the opera The Valkyrie in 1856. Schubert is known best for his art songs‚ which are over 600 in number. Puccini and Wagner are known for their operas. These genres have several important differences. The singing in these pieces is quite different. The Erlking involves just a soloist
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tonality‚ or even atonality‚ what kinds of resolutions and transitions are used to link or conclude ideas‚ and the homophonic or polyphonic texture of orchestral voices. Though their ideas often conflicted theoretically‚ composers of 19th Century opera were fully aware of the character and emotional implications of the harmonic language they used. Evidence of their deliberateness can be found in the revisions of their work- comparing an old draft with the finished piece‚ as well as by examining their
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Phantom Lake is something indescribable. Everyone has a moment where they come to realize why they love something so much‚ mine happened to be a week after my first week of camp. Only one week after leaving the place that I now call home I saw that every day things like seeing my friends or singing to a song on the radio would bring me back to my fantastic first week. Phantom has impacted me in a way that no other program or person has. Looking back to my LIT‚ no pun intended‚ weeks I have learned
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