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n. Any treatment for pain based on distraction.
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Counterstimulation is a treatment for pain, based on distraction.
A basic example is the practice of rubbing a fresh bruise, so that attention is paid to the sense of touch and pressure, rather than to the pain of the injury. Liniment and "medicated" products containing menthol work in the same way, producing sensations such as heat or cold or strong odors.
Counterstimulation can also be applied to a remote part of the body.
Pain control can also be achieved by the use of electronic media, such as television or virtual reality.
Usage examples of "counterstimulation".
Genar-Hofoen said, quickly replaying in his head what the Affronter had been saying.
The ship replayed those memories unseen from Becky before the next millisecond passed.
On one TV, he watched the Sky News replays of the attack on the presidential motorcade, and the attacks in London and Paris and Saudi Arabia.
She picked up the holobinoculars and replayed the surveillance scan Peart had just completed.
The rapid ability to replace, retrain, redact, or to replay an entire lifetime of experience through electromnemonics rendered individual minds fungible, modular, and replaceable.
I read my book of poems or split firewood or set up my wooden chess pieces, replaying the games of the grandmasters, all the while cursing Soli for ruining my expedition.
Arithon was dealt forced review of smashed dreams, the prismatic linkage of cause and effect replayed to the least stinging nuance.
Still, with the extreme unlikelihood that anyone would ever see humor in what had been suffered in recent weeks, this replay of Robert Milner taking on and exorcising the latest vexation of Yahweh should have been received more with tedium than with any sense of engrossed enthusiasm.
Nadon replayed his first memories of Alima, captain of the Imperial Star Destroyer Conquest.
Such was the sour attitude in the astrometrics lab as Seven of Nine described to them the replay of what they had seen and now recorded.
We ate lunch from folding tables in the bacchante room so we could watch the replays of the Olympic events.
Everybody is either at the palace waiting for Fora or at home watching replays of her.
My shoulder muscles tense as my conversation with Peter Garvey resumes its unrelenting replay in my brain.
The left overs from the Markovian dream in the eternal replay of the rise and fall of civilization.
There was a wonderful and many-leveled table intrigue, and I believe that more and more of it will come through every time the drama is replayed.