Phantom pain

Pain Pain is something nobody wants to endure, whether it is physical, mental, or emotional pain, they are all never fun to go through. Even though pain is no fun, without our body’s telling us we are experiencing pain, worse consequences can occur. For instance, if you roll over your ankle and end up spraining it, without our body's sending a message to our brain that we need to take care of our ankle, our sprained ankle will gradually get worse and not heal. With this being said, I completely…

in your own words everything you have learned about pain starting out with a definition. Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience caused by intense stimuli. Pain can range from dull, to extremely sharp, and even emotional. Pain can helps us survive by warning our bodies of potential danger, or can be an indicator that something is wrong. Pain is a feeling triggered by the nervous system. Our bodies are covered with millions of pain receptors called nociceptors. Nociceptors send…

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons written by Sam Kean is a collection of stories throughout history that depicts the discovery, symptoms, and shifts in the fundamental understanding of the brain and brain injuries. Within the pages of this book, Kean does a masterful job explaining the intricacies of the brain, providing captivating stories to stimulate the reader, all while encapsulating valuable information on the brain. The book is written from a scientific perspective, invoking brain…

“You always knew it would Mark, ever since you felt the joy of being able to play god.” “But I never thought I would be here, laying on the floor of this old dump. I wanted the rein of The Phantom Killer to end on a high note “To end on a high note?!” the voice laughed. “You messed up, now you’re dying. Explain to me how we even got here…

Phantom sensations is a extraordinary phenomenon that most amputees with experience. One might assume that once their limb has been removed they will no longer feel pain for it, however, individuals who are amputees will suffer pain in places that no longer exist, thus why it's called phantom sensations. There are a couple popular theories to why this happens. The first being that once an amputation is performed all the nerve endings clump together, their clumping causes abnormal pain signals…

The Phantom limb is a sensation experienced by someone who has had a limb amputated that the limb is still there. People who have had their limb or some other part of their body part amputated, still experience this. They still feel pain and experience the sensation that it is still attached to the body. The explanation for the phantom limb pain range from injured nerve endings where the limb was lost to changes in the brain areas connected with the missing limb. Phantom limbs also allow us to…

years, the monsters of myths have moved from the iconic literary works onto the big screen of the cinema, permitting audiences to now see the creatures that were once only a culmination of descriptive phrases. The steady visual alteration of the Phantom and other monsters in film, has now disturbed the long-held hypothesis that claims that a monster's body is basically an embodiment of disparity bringing about one outcome, fear. A scholar in monster theory, Jeffery Jerome Cohen composed a book…

The Phantom of the Opera has been a smash hit in the world of musical theatre ever since opening on October 9th, 1986 in New York City. Since then, there have been a countless number of different productions and tours that have graced audiences across the world. Currently, there is a new production of The Phantom of the Opera on tour across North America, involving one of the largest casts of any touring company. This marvelously humongous musical has been brought to life by a number of persons…

References to Popular Works in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera is a novel written by Gaston Leroux and published as a serial in Le Gaulois, a Parisian newspaper, between September of 1909 and January of 1910 (Freeman, “Le Gaulois”). Originally published in French, the novel first reached English-speaking audiences when it was translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos in 1911. Due to time constraints, de Mattos’s translation has many errors, ranging…

Synopsis The drama theater The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of an opera singer Christine who has been performing at the gala was held in Paris. Raoul is a sign of old and had been friends with Christine since childhood had heard Christine sing and have fallen in love with him. At the time it also became a rumor that there are ghosts who have stayed in Opera. After the gala dinner held to have committed Faust Opera Paris by presenting the prima donna Carlotta. During the show Carlotta…