Patient was instructed regarding mental anesthesia and analgesia technique for pain management as follows:
- Mental anesthesia and analgesia is a technique of pain management, in which you train the mind to imagine either infusion or natural production of pain relieving chemicals into the pain site, which helps with better pain control.
- You can train the mind to imagine injecting into the pain site, an anesthetic or a narcotic, to numb the pain for better pain control.
- You can train the mind using this technique, to imagine placing a cold patch on an inflamed joint with swelling.
- Also, you can train the mind using this technique, to imagine placing a heat patch on a stiff joint, to help warm up the joint and relieve muscle spasms around the joint, and to promote range of motion in the joints.
- Production of endorphins, which are natural opioid pain relievers normally produced by the brain for pain relief, could also be imagined.
- Successful association of your mind with imagining either infusion or natural production of pain relieving chemicals into the pain site, can offer experience of relief with pain and discomfort, thus helping with pain management.
