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How phantom limb syndrome mirrors the ghost of former health

I keep having phantom sensations in my amputated leg two years later and sometimes I forget it's gone when I first wake up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The body remembers what the mind knows is gone, creating a daily confrontation with loss that defies logic.

Ideas that help explain it
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