Scientist studies phantom pain
THis is amazing and quite weird:
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If truck driver Archie Ferretti's children sit where his foot used to be, he sometimes tells them to move."I'll say: `You have to move because you're hurting my leg'. But there's no leg there," he said.
The 46-year-old, who lost his lower right leg in a trucking accident two months ago, is part of an Australian study into phantom limb pain, which affects most amputees in varying degrees but is little understood by scientists.
Mr Ferretti, of Bairnsdale, in Victoria, says sometimes when his missing foot "feels itchy", his daughter will pretend to scratch it for him.
"It actually eases the itch," he said in an interview.
He's also felt the sensation of blood running between toes he no longer has.
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posted 14 February 2006 10:59 PM
