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VR simulations of cold environments are seeing success for burn victims.

http://www.firsthand.com/portfolio/pain.html

https://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrpain/

I've heard of Mindfulness Meditation being used to change the experience of pain from an act of suffering to an act of simple awareness. I don't know how widespread that technique is deployed though...




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