phantom pain

Today, in Surgery, I thought about the phenomenon of phantom pain. I'm not sure what actually triggered the thought, but anyway... here goes...
Ok, so briefly put, phantom pain is the pain a person feels in what used to be a limb that has been severed/amputated. It is a phenomenon that is still a gray area in science, especially with regards to 'curing' it. The most recent (and I use the term 'recent' loosely) findings suggest that if you can get the brain to realise that the limb is not there anymore, you should be able to effectively get rid of the phantom limb pain. It has proven successful in some, bit al cases. One of the best known tricks for retraining the circuitry of the brain is the use of the mirror! Another has been to get the person to visualise the absent limb doing almost impossible movements. (It appears that the latter is a bit like performing unusual movements with your two limbs (simultaneously and differently) to cure hiccups.
I'm no expert on the intricacies of this, but I cannot help but come back to the topic of meridiens as seen in acupuncture and reflexology. I hasten to add that in my opinion this is directly connected to the fact that our entire being started off as one cell, and therefore everything in our bodies (regardless of the level of differentiation it has undergone, is connected). The other thing is, if every living thing has an energy field (and let's simply focus on the strictly orthodox scientific view of energy fields), then based on Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2, phantom pain is not such an anomaly! Let me explain. Whether the energy field precedes the formation of life, or life precedes the formation of the energy field to some may be a case of the chicken and the egg. Just bear that in mind, as I proceed with my explanation. If you use a thermal imaging camera to look at a person, you see a thermal signature. Some areas warmer than others. What you also see is the fact that the outline of the heat signature is not exactly the same as the boundaries of the person's physical form. If you could raise the sensitivity of the imaging equipment, you would probably see that the heat signature of the person actually extends beyon the physical boundaries of the persons body. Where am I going with this? You see, I'm building a case to make a point about why I think phantom pain makes perfect sense...and also why I think that acupuncture helps. I'm going to keep oscillating between what conventional medicine accepts to be fact and what the other theories say. You know the humunculus? There is the corresponding part of the face arms and legs in the cortex. To treatment for phantom limb pain is by applying these needles to certain points on the scalp. I think, if some electrical waves were applies to the scalp, targetting the specific area in the cortex that applied to the 'missing limb' some relief would be gained from this. I'm sorry, I'm moving backwards and forwards, but the ideas are just popping into my head and I don't want to forget them so I've lost a bit of the chronology of thought in the process of trying to capture the ideas..The reason I think that phantom pain is not such an unusual phenomenon is that even after the physical body part is removed, I think that there is some residual energy in that specific region, and if E=mc^2 (Gosh! I love that equation!! Seems to shed light on so many things that baffle me!! Gosh! Einstein!! Such genius!!).. Yes, if E=mc^2 then could it be that the pain of the limb being severed (or whatever) could have been converted into energy and therefor is existing in that form and then transmits through the nerves again? So the sensation of pain is physical (at the time of amputation); and then it gets 'stored' as energy, then it gets converted back into physical and transmitted along the nerves to the brain. If all cells have memory, then perhaps this is no different. Perhaps to help the neurons to forget or let go of the pain/memory
to be continued...