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* Stahl* <http://cbs3.com/bios/local_bio_337160722.html>

Reporting

*(CBS 3)* *PHILADELPHIA* Imagine your child in constant pain and being

powerless to stop it. It is a terribly difficult situation, but Medical

reporter Stahl has the story about how some kids are stopping pain

with the power of their minds.

is learning to hypnotize herself to ease terrible pain.

suffers with chronic pain that started with the skin condition

eczema, but the pain syndrome continues to make her feel like her skin is on

fire.

" It felt like someone was putting a lighter to my skin and holding it

there, " said 11-year-old .

" People will be experiencing pain even where there's not necessarily a clear

injury or reason for them to be having it, said Dr. Walco of Hackensack

University Medical Center.

There are some medications and other treatments but they often don't work

for the mysterious chronic pain syndrome.

So is learning to make the pain go away herself, by transferring the

pain.

Hypnosis also worked for Kelsey Plaskon, 16, who sprained her ankle during a

soccer game. After months of agony, she was finally cured.

" I walked in there with crutches and like the big black boot. And I walked

out of there with just a sneaker on, " Plaskon said.

There's always a chance the chronic pain will return or the hypnosis will

stop working.

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