Phantom pain
Phantom pain is defined as pain that is felt in the part of the body that is no longer there.
About 80% of all amputees are affected at some time by phantom pain. They describe this as a stabbing, burning pain that is felt in a limb that is no longer there, the so-called phantom limb. Some patients suffer so much that they have to take high doses of pain-killers - with considerable side effects.
Today, phantom pain is still an unexplained phenomenon that Stolperstein will try to clarify in this chapter.