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==Examples== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Location ! Description |- | Upper chest/left limb | [[Myocardial ischaemia]] (the loss of blood flow to a part of the heart muscle tissue) is possibly the best known example of referred pain; the sensation can occur in the upper chest as a restricted feeling, or as an ache in the left shoulder, arm or even hand. |- | Head | "[[Ice-cream headache]]" or "brain freeze" is another example of referred pain, in which the [[vagus nerve]] or the [[trigeminal nerve]] in the throat and the palate, respectively, transmit pain signals following rapid cooling and rewarming of the capillaries in the sinuses.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kaczorowski|first1=Maya|last2=Kaczorowski|first2=Janusz|title=Ice cream evoked headaches (ICE-H) study: randomised trial of accelerated versus cautious ice cream eating regimen.|journal=BMJ|date=21 December 2002|volume=325|issue=7378|pages=1445β6|doi=10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1445|pmid=12493658|pmc=139031}}</ref> |- | General | [[Phantom limb pain]], a type of referred pain, is the sensation of pain from a limb that has been lost or from which a person no longer receives physical signals. It is an experience almost universally reported by amputees and quadriplegics. |- | Right tip of [[scapula]] | [[Liver]], [[gallbladder]]{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} |- | Umbilicus | Pain in [[ovary]] |- | Left shoulder | [[Thoracic diaphragm]], [[spleen]] ([[Kehr's sign]]), [[lung]]{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} |- |Back |[[Low back pain]]<ref name=manusov_2012_diag>{{cite journal | vauthors = Manusov EG | title = Evaluation and diagnosis of low back pain | journal = Primary Care | volume = 39 | issue = 3 | pages = 471β9 | date = September 2012 | pmid = 22958556 | doi = 10.1016/j.pop.2012.06.003 }}</ref> |- |Palm of hand | [[Palmaris longus]],<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Travell & Simons' Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: Upper half of body|author1=Simons, D.G.|author2=Travell, J.G.|author3=Simons, L.S.|date=1999|publisher=Williams & Wilkins|isbn=9780683083637|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sU0XupX7DGsC|page=750|access-date=May 20, 2015}}</ref> a problem originating in the forearm might be felt in the palm, and not in the forearm. |}
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