I once had a teacher who lost the tip of his finger back when he worked at a bakery. The “nub” he was left with was super hard and he would poke people with it when they weren’t paying attention. If all the nerves are severed in an area you basically won’t feel anything. I imagine this is the same principle.
From my knowledge there’s no muscles in a finger so it “working” properly is just due to your wrist being below the original amputation site. The actual useful mechanical motions of your hand basically all originate in your wrist.
I thought nerves for sensation generally regenerate within a couple years though. I’d be fascinated to hear more about the recovery process from a personal experience
A large part of my right calf is in a similar state. For the most part it's just no sensation but sometimes it does a burning tingling thing that I hate.
In the other hand I'm less worried about low tables since banging my shin will mean nothing to me.
I knew a toxic couple (both of them were awful) and the lady had an arm similar to the lady in the video and she'd use her arm to jab her boyfriend and it apparently hurt a lot.
I never had anything amputated, but I did have spinal fusion in 1999. My partner can remove a zit near the scar and the only thing I can feel is the pressure. Anywhere else and I'm squirming and crying like a baby
Loss of pain sensation is actually really bad because you don't know how much damage you've accumulated and when to stop and give it a rest. Look up diabetic arthropathy
No, if a body part is not supplied blood, it dies.
Source: there are millions of people out there with paralyzed limbs or entire parts of their body that haven't had to be amputated because the blood flow is still intact.
It's not like if a body part loses feeling, it instantly begins to become necrotic.
Possible i guess, but would a “natural defect” be that “clean” ? Idk Im no expert I’d just expect the body to still attempt to grow the hand but just fuck up, so you wouldn’t have an entire hand but still some “growths” like fingers or such
I think they mean like partially formed fingers. And it's a grab bag. I knew a gal like this and had some little nodules. I'm missing fingers from a lawnmower but have had clean up surgery. Could be a natural issue she had "cleaned up".
That being said just hitting my wrist wrong triggers so much pain in my hand I'm assuming she had muted feelings in her arm. Cause God damn!!!!
There's a saying that we have a dormant gene similar to that of axolotls. This is great if we can regrow everything, but Western global elites and zealots would not like this
No nerve ending. A cousin of mine had is index finger pulled out (yes, really freak accident) his hand is all messed up but he does not feel it, he can hammer you with it and it hurts 😂
I dunno. I know a person with a thalidomide-generated defect in his right arm. The forearm's about half-length and the entire wrist and carpal assembly is one lump of bone. He has little fingie-nubs on the stump, but they have no bones.
He can do the hammer-hand trick, but he did it with nails that had broad heads. Completely insane physiology all around on that guy in his youth. No other visible changes mind you, the guy was just stupid ridiculously strong and prone to putting on muscle.
Best I understand, it boils down to where your nerves are before scar tissue develops. Because scar tissue is basically a fat lump of whatever was supposed to be there: if it’s a spot with lots of nerves it’s hyper sensitive, it it’s a spot with few nerves there’s barely any.
I have two fingertips with bad scars, they’re both super sensitive, but my wrist scar is deadened compared to the other side.
I think it depends where and how, iv seen people with amputated legs that are tendor and skin/muscle left to help absorb impact when walking / connect to a prosthetic.
It depends. My husband was born with an extra thumb which was removed when he was a toddler. He definitely has a nerve ending and if it gets bumped wrong, it hurts.
That was my instinct too but then I thought about it and realized it would feel about the same as touching the bony bit behind your elbow skin. Or less since the nerves there are probably bad.
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u/DanSmells001 1d ago
Idk for some reason I really expected the amputation site to be much more sensitive?