VR simulations of cold environments are seeing success for burn victims. http://www.firsthand.com/portfolio/pain.html http://www.firsthand.com/portfolio/pain.h

VR simulations of cold environments are seeing success for burn victims. http://www.firsthand.com/portfolio/pain.html http://www.firsthand.com/portfolio/pain.html https://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrpain/ 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...