miguel nicolelis says research raises a key question that could radically change our relationship to the world around us do we really need a body to feel something. we talk to our patients you know the park music patients their work when we walk in project and they have ferial operate phantom sensations like fifty x. a skeleton is part of them. it touches on very big issues of what is to be human and one thing that most people be shocked to learn is that our assessor self is not limited to does body that we occupy our sense of self ends and the last layer of atoms controlled directly by our breath. not in the last layer of the skin. if this research
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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.
in miles case, if you touch his chest, he feels it in his missing arm. when i do this, i feel it in 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. he s also tried mirror therapy, which is designed to fool the brain into thinking the missing limb is still there. basically what i m doing is i am placing my hand in front of a
unknown. i have been watching victims with a live press conference, one of the young ladies from the hospital, very positive about it. i imagine there are hills and valleys. it is normal stages of grieving, like losing a person, you really did lose a person, you lost that old self. do you still have a phantom? i don t. normally sometimes when i first had the amputation, you have these phantom sensations or phantom pains. i don t have them now. long time ago. best and worst thing about losing your limb? the best thing and worst thing. well, the best thing is that these limbs i was given a choice to have my real legs or these back, i would continue to live with prosthetic for the rest of my life because i feel like i can make a difference in people s lives. i feel like i am playing a role in a bigger story, divine story that is, and wouldn t have been able to do that with real legs. that s what i meant, there s