Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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Phantom limb pain is a painful sensation perceived in the absent limb following surgical or traumatic amputation. Phantom limb sensations, which are nonpainful, occur in nearly all amputees. Deafferentation can also produce similar symptoms. Here we report the presence of phantom pain in a deafferented limb. ⋯ This is a report of phantom limb sensations and phantom pain following BPA in an intact but flaccid and insensate limb.
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The aim of this study was to examine barriers and facilitators to multimodality chronic pain care among veterans on high-dose opioid analgesics for chronic non-cancer pain. ⋯ Veterans with chronic pain on long-term opioids hold pervasive attitudes that prevent them from using multimodality pain management options, lack social support and social norms for non-opioid-based pain treatment options, and have poor perceived control due to poor access to multimodality care.