Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surgeons have known for 400 years that patients who undergo amputations continue to have "sensations," ranging from a pleasant tingling to excruciating pain, in the limb that is no longer there. They have dubbed it "pain in the phantom limb." Now surgeons are coming around to the idea that the best way to exorcise many cases of phantom pain is by phantom exercise...
...Allen Sidney Russek of New York University's rehabilitation center pioneered the exercise method as part of an effort to treat both the physical and emotional aspects of the pain. It is especially important to get rid of phantom pain if an artificial limb is to be fitted, says Dr. Russek, or the patient may be deterred from trying to use the new limb...
...Hemingway's greatest work, "The Old Man and the Sea," the wish-fulfilling ideal becomes something more. It becomes convincingly real: "He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff, and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.... Then the fish came alive, with all his death...
...Aches & Pain...
Until the virus came along, the President's month-old lumbosacral strain was, by official accounts, coming along fine. After a couple of days of rest at Middleburg, the President hopped about on his crutches with decreasing evidence of pain. Although Kennedy had twice recently reinjured his back-once by tilting too far back in his black leather swivel chair, another time by leaning too hastily over his desk to sign some letters-Dr. Travell said that her patient would soon be off his crutches. Just the same, Kennedy canceled a trip to the Governors' Conference in Hawaii...