Altered consciousness in flotation-REST and chamber-REST: Experience of experimental pain and subjective stress
January 3, 2004 Anette Kjellgren, U. Sundequist, Ulla Sundholm et al.
Twenty-three sportsmen were given one 45-minute exposure to flotation-REST and one exposure to chamber-REST on two occasions, incorporating random assignment to either flotation-REST followed by chamber-REST or vice versa. On each occasion, the Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique (REST) procedure was followed immediately by testing experimentally induced pain to one arm using a blood...