“…Emotions, vulnerabilities, self-compassion, motivation, invalidation, and interpersonal effectiveness, and other personal challenges are addressed that commonly impact chronic pain patients (Barrett et al, 2020). Not just chronic pain, but therapies like acupuncture, hypnosis, mindfulness, relaxation, VR, and AR-based delivery system are being utilized for inpatient and outpatient acute pain such as headache, migraine, and pain in acute and emergency setting (Lindner et al, 2020;Vekhter et al, 2020). As a complementary procedure, acupuncture provides therapeutic benefits by increasing pain thresholds and insular activation (Cao et al, 2019).…”