The experience of the phantom limb syndrome involves the subjective sensation of the patient, the processes involved in this sensation are: both sensitive activity and the motor pathway.
- The somatic nervous system is made up of mixed nerves (mixtures of sensory and motor axons) that emerge from the central nervous system, innervate the somatic effectors (skeletal muscles).
- Somatic motor pathways begin in the motor areas of the cerebral cortex, the projection neurons in that cortex emit axons that descend through the brain stem until they reach the spinal cord.
- Patients with this syndrome experience the sensation that the amputated limb is still attached to their body, since the brain continues to receive messages from the nerves that originally carried the impulses from the lost limb.
Therefore, we can conclude that Phantom Limb Syndrome is the perception of sensations, which include pain of an amputated limb, where both sensory activity and the motor pathway have an action on said sensations.
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