Patient was instructed regarding practicing dissociation technique for pain management as follows: Select a comfortable place, as you need some isolation with calm and quiet environment, so as to practice the technique. Make yourself comfortable by either sitting down or lying flat. Start doing slow and deep breathing and focus on the rise of chest and abdomen during the inspiratory phase of the breathing. Hold the breath for 3 seconds at the end of inspiration. [...]

Patient was instructed regarding dissociation/detachment technique for pain management as follows: Dissociation is a technique of pain management, using which you train your mind to separate from the source and feeling of pain. The mind and the experience of pain, which are usually connected, are separated using dissociation. This separation of the source of pain from the mind and rest of the body leads to detachment and distance from the experience of pain. In this [...]