Medical Mysteries

Phantom Limb Pain Pt. 1

07.28.2020 - By Spotify StudiosPlay

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In the mid-1500s, French surgeon Ambroise Paré realized patients who survived an amputation could still feel their missing limbs. Doctors theorized for centuries about the phenomenon, driven by one question: How do you treat a limb that doesn’t exist?

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