Introduction:

amputation is a surgical procedure and disability as its consequence can be considered a clinical entity. Any response to amputation is highly individual. Between 40 and 80% of amputees refer pain in the amputated area or phantom limb pain, and among all the problems that can occur after surgery, this is one of the most serious.

Objective:

to determine the behavior of phantom pain in the amputated population in Cárdenas from January 1st 2015 to December 31st 2019 and the clinical improvement of symptoms with the different treatments applied.

Materials and methods:

a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in the General Hospital Julio Miguel Aristegui Villamil of Cárdenas in the period from January 1st 2015 to December 31st 2019, with the aim of evaluating the clinical and demographic variables of patients with antecedents of unilateral limb amputation who attended the emergency department or outpatient Orthopedics and Traumatology, and Angiology and Vascular Surgery consultations for presenting phantom pain.

Results:

regarding the improvement of the symptoms and the phantom pain itself, according to the pain evaluation scale (VAS), it was shown that there was very discreet relief and its persistence in 96% of the patients.

Conclusions:

unsatisfactory results are observed instead of the treatments used in the study.

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