Toe amputation surgery four months still difficult, should be phantom limb pain. Phantom limb pain, meaning the patient’s subjective feeling that the limb that has been removed still exists and is accompanied by pain of different degrees and natures, this kind of pain mostly occurs in the distal end of the residual limb, and it is one of the most common postoperative complications in amputation patients.
Clinical symptoms mainly include the feeling that the amputated part of the limb still exists, pain in the stump after amputation, which may be accompanied by other psychosomatic symptoms such as anxiety, depression and insomnia. Phantom limb pain is characterized by throbbing, stabbing, drill-like, squeezing, burning or wringing pain. It is also possible that this may also have an effect on the walking of the foot.
Usually phantom limb pain can be improved mainly through physical therapy, while the back of the walking impact, you can do some rehabilitation exercises, while usually more hot water foot soak, generally this will not have a very big impact, don’t worry. If the discomfort gradually increased, should go to the regular hospital for treatment.