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A benefit of possessing a prosthetic limb is...

  1. #1
    WellHung Black Hole
    that it never itches.
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  2. #2
    hitting someone with it over the head
  3. #3
    WellHung Black Hole
    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood hitting someone with it over the head

    what are your hopes and dreams?
  4. #4
    hitting you over the head with a prosthetic limb or similar blunt and heavy object like a baseball bat or tire iron
  5. #5
    Quick Mix Ready Dark Matter [jealously defalcate my upanishad]
    prosthetic boobies
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    big heads
  7. #7
    ey wut u say tiny
  8. #8
    WellHung Black Hole
    nogs?
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    My uncle lost his lower leg/foot in a motorcycle accident. He had a prosthetic one. When we were kids we'd laugh because he would sit and itch/scratch his plastic ankle...he'd say it felt like his foot was still there and it was itchy.
  10. #10
    WellHung Black Hole
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson My uncle lost his lower leg/foot in a motorcycle accident. He had a prosthetic one. When we were kids we'd laugh because he would sit and itch/scratch his plastic ankle…he'd say it felt like his foot was still there and it was itchy.

    Phantom itching?
  11. #11
    Originally posted by WellHung Phantom itching?

    Either that or he was pullin our plonkers.
  12. #12
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson My uncle lost his lower leg/foot in a motorcycle accident. He had a prosthetic one. When we were kids we'd laugh because he would sit and itch/scratch his plastic ankle…he'd say it felt like his foot was still there and it was itchy.

    he should have tried ketamine

    I discovered a long time ago that ketamine and cannabinoids helped my phantom hand. I’m quite convinced these classes work by distorting body image so severely that you phase out triggers for the pain. I have experienced profound proprioceptive distortions after intramuscular PCP injection, as if my whole body were a proportional model of the sensory homunculus. But in a sense, what I feel is not hallucination or a distortion, I actually find dissociatives

    corrective

    , that is, they make the phantom disappear. This is not just an idiosyncratic response on my part; there are at least three articles published on the effectiveness of ketamine in treating phantom-limb pain
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  13. #13
    Solstice Naturally Camouflaged
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson My uncle lost his lower leg/foot in a motorcycle accident. He had a prosthetic one. When we were kids we'd laugh because he would sit and itch/scratch his plastic ankle…he'd say it felt like his foot was still there and it was itchy.

    Phantom itching is real just like phantom pain, its the nervous system misfiring.
  14. #14
    Quick Mix Ready Dark Matter [jealously defalcate my upanishad]
    Originally posted by Solstice Phantom itching is real just like phantom pain, its the nervous system misfiring.

    the brain is rewiring the nerve endings to the neuron structure of the brain. the rubbing of the plastic foot to the nub overtime is letting the brain know the foot is back but the itching is when irritation occurs and also for blood flow. when we scratch we stimulate blood flow for the nerve cells to grow back. or something like this.

    this is why over time a prosthetic can feel like the real thing even though it has no nerves in it, it's a virtual reconstruction that the brain will compensate for
  15. #15
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson My uncle lost his lower leg/foot in a motorcycle accident. He had a prosthetic one. When we were kids we'd laugh because he would sit and itch/scratch his plastic ankle…he'd say it felt like his foot was still there and it was itchy.

    Weeeel gonts, looks like Opey just got debunked
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