Frugal Immersive tech for healing chronic pain

IBS patient update - initially I was feeling bored and also wanted to change the topic rather than listen to tiny and probably useless points when she was speaking at very slow speed and I had to rush to read more for exam preparation but I tried keeping patience for sometime and what I got was something extremely amazing. She was slow as many stories she had lived like real life were going through her mind, where most if them were painful ones.. She was trying to evaluate them and make it in meaningful statement as how she is awake with eyes open but far far away from reality, feeling living in imagination which feels completely real and some moments are so slow as if time have stopped and this super slow scene stays there for long like many minutes or probably even an hour as she fails to keep track of real-time and these Stationary scenes gives her most amazing experience. Amazing in happy or sad way or what, can't explain clearly but may be can say the most powerful feelings. She detailed more about kind of stories she have lived but avoided giving much details, may be because fear of being judged, specially as I am a good friend now or also because risk of being Interfered as I needed to get back to study.. With details what beautiful thing I learnt was her "self hypnosis" Helping her to get big relief from chronic physical and emotional trauma and pain.

This show's a good opportunity for use of immersive tech like VR/AR/XR/MR against chronic pain (physical/emotional) management which has already started to become reality.

For a person practising self-hypnosis, it may be better to be guided by a professional who may help do better, safer and maybe less saddening ways. Interested to hear from trained clinical hypnosis practitioners or please share in comments if any relevant publications.

Self hypnosis = frugal, immersive (human tech).

Reply from RB sir -  Amazing write up 👏   Reflective self hypnosis is a great idea toward a new tech supported therapeutic tool 👍

even with lesser cost, why better healthcare?

https://www.numbeo.com/health-care/rankings_by_country.jsp

even with lesser cost, why better healthcare?

"It was recognized from the 1940s onwards that what was needed was a ‘health policy’ rather than a ‘disease policy’ as summed up by the director of the medical services Dr W. G. Wickremesinghe as early as 1945. Despite this ongoing acceptance of the benefits of preventive medicine the balance of government expenditure was overwhelmingly in favour of curative medicine as is the case in most other countries. One estimate of this balance in 1975 suggested that for every rupee spent on the curative sector only 12 cents was spent on prevention of disease and the promotion of health. This situation prompted the director of the Colombo Hospital to ask in 1970: “Was it more important to improve sanitation, nutrition, and health education and provide basic facilities for health and patient care for the masses of this country; or was it more important to go in for sophisticated and expensive programs like heart transplant units?” (Daily News, 3 Sept 1970). However, the hospitals were the visible symbol of Sri Lanka’s free health service and the symbol of modernity; switching resources to preventive public health was a highly politically contentious issue.

There were deep roots to the development of primary health care services in Sri Lanka and it represented at international level an example of what could be done without the levels of expenditure common in developed countries. Sri Lanka´s experience was an essential part of the debate on primary health care which took centre stage at international level in the 1970s. Furthermore, given the extent of its hospital based curative system it was also a perfect illustration of the limits of that model for low-income countries in the context of a burgeoning population and economic crisis. However, in the succeeding decades the challenge for Sri Lanka has remained that of finding the most effective route to reducing morbidity. This is now an ever more pressing priority with the demographic transition to an ageing population and the resulting double disease burden."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK316260/

https://www.who.int/chp/chronic_disease_report/sri_lanka.pdf?ua=1

For India - Same scenario of double disease burden.