Hypnosis can be used to regulate pain, but attention must still be paid to acute injuries like a broken ankle or severe chest pain.

“but our brain is sort programmed to treat all pain signals as if they were novel pain signals if it's a sudden new problem that needs to be attended to. I teach people to to to think of the pain and categorize it. See, is it does it does the pain mean that if you put weight on this, you're going to reinjure your ankle, for example, or does it simply mean that your body is healing and the pain is a sign that gradually things are getting back to normal?”