Living with member phantom pain: person postamputada

Abstract

Objective: To describe the live with phantom limb pain in posamputada person.

Method: Qualitative Study-descriptive, explorato­ry approach; and as a semi-structured interview technique was employed, participating subjects residing in the State of Durango, Mexico; involving 12 people to be amputated debuted with pain phantom limb the theoretical support was supported with the pain of Le Breton (1999)21

Results: In the discourses of posamputada indi­vidual expressions of life without goals is evident, are determined to play the role of patients to consider their pain as a personal tragedy or social deviance that his life and mourns for his family.

Final Thoughts: The nurse must learn to listen to the sick body, carefully follow their signals and whether their expressions of joy, sorrow, sadness, pain, disgust, silence, etc; interpreting what is com­municating and requests. You must be alert and vigilant care that the body-subject relieve physical pain and the pain of the soul, which can be re­versed permanently for the rest of your life, because living with pain from the physiological point of view is a circumstantial eventual crisis and controllable which does not happen with the disease of the soul.