Although everyone who has experienced chronic or acute pain would argue, V.S. Ramachandran, who is an experienced neuroscientist has once claimed that pain is not a response to the injury, but it is an opinion on the organism’s state of health. Although pain caused by migraines, EDS pain, or pain caused by other medical conditions is certainly real, the scientist argues that pain isn’t just the reaction to the factual, but that instead, the issue is much more complicated.
The mirror box experiment
The reason why patients experience pain can sometimes be a little surprising. It is not a rare occurrence for people to feel pain radiating from missing limbs. How is that possible? It seems that the pain is not a response to the objective reality. To help people with phantom pain, Ramachandran invented a technique called
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