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Amputees often feel agonizing pain in limbs they no longer have. How does modern medicine sometimes cure this?

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Amputees often feel agonizing pain in limbs they no longer have. How does modern medicine sometimes cure this?

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Amputees often feel agonizing pain in limbs they no longer have. How does modern medicine sometimes cure this?
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