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...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...
Last week Dr. Russek described the case of an upstate New York electrician who lost his left arm and suffered massive scarring in an electrical burn last year. The patient, 38, felt that his phantom left arm was doubled behind him, that the hand was numb, and that every now and then electric shocks coursed up and down the arm, with sparks snapping off his fingertips...
...diets, emotional strain. Last week the American Psychosomatic Society met in Manhattan, heard a panel of experts examine the kinds of personalities most prone to heart attacks, re-emphasize the dangers of stress. Even the "lethalness of a high-fat diet in our society," noted Dr. Henry I. Russek, consultant in cardiovascular research for the U.S. Public Health Service, "seems to be dependent on the 'catalytic influence' of stressful living...