Even after a painful limb has been amputated from a person’s body, approximately 80 percent of those individuals can still experience the pain.
This lingering pain occurs because the old pain neurons and pathways that were in their brain remain intact.
This type of pain is referred to as Phantom Limb Pain because, even though the person’s limb has been removed from their body, their brain continues to perceive the pain.
These connections persist until they are either left unused for an extended period or replaced by new neural connections unrelated to the previous pain.