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Transcripts for CNN Dr Sanjay Gupta Reports Miles OBrien A Life Lost Found 20150311 01:21:00

syndrome. we don t know exactly why or how it happens, but some theories suggest the brain is rewiring itself after the loss of input from an amputated limb. so it reassigns the sensations of that limb to a different part of the body. in miles case, if you touch his chest, he feels it in his missing arm. towhen i do this, i feel it the tip of my fingers. when i do this, i feel my fingers and there s a place in the bottom of my heel that i discovered in a massage. the rewiring of the brain can often result in phantom pain as well. the limb may be missing but the pain is very real. i just got a twinge, by the way. got an electrical jolt. in the phantom? just happened. some too, i think when you re focused on it too, it tends to be more of a problem. these phantom sensations usually subside over time. medicine can help. and in miles case, medical marijuana has worked the best.

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Transcripts for CNN Dr Sanjay Gupta Reports Miles OBrien A Life Lost Found 20150311 04:20:00

what do you feel right now? it s almost like, imagine when your foot goes to sleep or hand goes to sleep and as it is waking up and you get the sensation back and it s kind of partially numb and kind of tingly, that s kind of the feeling i have almost all the time there. and then on occasion, i ll get kind of these electrical jolts or what seem like twitches in my missing fingers. it s a really bizarre experience to have sensation and pain in a place that doesn t exist. except in your mind, right? this is common among amputees. more than 80% still feel their missing limb in the early days after an amputation. it s called phantom limb syndrome. we don t know exactly why or how it happens, but some theories suggest the brain is rewiring itself after the loss of input from an amputated limb. so it reassigns the sensations of that limb to a different part of the body.

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