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It does, there is some very promessing studies on patient that suffer massive body burn ( most of their skin is gone )

The traditional approch is pain killers and some meditation.

VR helps a lot.

On two front : it distract your brain and it can teach you how to reach that distracted from the pain state by yourself.

My understanding is that a large pourcentage of the neurons are specialized in image processing. And that keeping those busy with exploring a VR world avoid to have those neurons re-assign to ponder about pain.