Breathing control is absolutely essential I think for managing pain. Pain is basically an acidic process at the receptor level. Hyperventilating removes carbon dioxide from the blood and makes the blood more acidic.
By breathing carefully, you can reduce the pain, by keeping the blood from getting too acidic. I learned this for my GI pain that I was born with. (I have a birth defect that results in twisted intestines). I have learned to control this and prevent a serious long term torsion, which may result in surgery some day. And this allows me to not need so much medication.
Yoga teaches breathing also, and some posters here have said that yoga helped their pain as well.
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