Phantom Limbs
A 64 Year old Women who suffered a Stroke recently has developed a third limb.
No Not really. The lady believes that she has a third arm tho. This incident is the first case of a person being able to see, feel and move her phantom limb.
Test have showen that the women controls her third arm and hand as she does her normal limbs. The Phantom limb can scratch and relieve itches if needed. Her body will even react if her phantom hand and real hand meet or if her phantom hand believes it touches a surface.
Scientists at Geneva University Hosptial in Switzerland were able to provide evidence that shows that the womens brain not only tells the phantom arm to do tasks. The phantom arm responds with signals that her normal arm would respond with. The hosptial used magnetic resonance imaging to produce these results.
I dont know whether this is a good or a bad thing for the women. I mean the women might give something to her phantom limb and it would drop. But then again say if you worked with machinery and accidentally cut your arm off and it was the phantom one she would be fine, she still has two others left.
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