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Nurse Teaching on Altered Focus Technique for Pain Management

Patient was instructed regarding altered focus technique for pain management as follows: Altered focus is a technique of pain management, in which you train the mind to produce pleasant, altered sensations in a non-painful part of the body. Also, to help generate the altered sensation, you can train the mind to visualize the rest of the body receiving some treatment, such as, a warm massage. Relaxing into the altered sensation produced in a non-painful part [...]

Practicing Dissociation/Detachment Technique for Pain Management

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. [...]

Dissociation/Detachment Technique for Pain Management

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 [...]

Sensory Splitting Technique for Pain Management

Patient was instructed regarding sensory splitting technique for pain management as follows: Sensory splitting is a technique of pain management, in which you train the mind to split the unpleasant sensation of pain into various components, such as, type of pain, nature of pain, intensity of pain, and so on. This technique involves focusing more on the attributes of the pain rather than the pain itself as one huge entity and worrying about the distress [...]

Practicing Distraction Technique for Pain Management-3

Patient was instructed today regarding practicing distraction technique for pain management as follows: Distraction is an alternative pain management technique of shifting the attention away. Distraction can help with masking and reducing the experience of pain, by consciously training the mind to focus on an activity, but does not completely terminate the pain. Practice distraction technique by training the mind to focus on how the surroundings feel like, such as, the quality of air, the [...]