EMDR in the hands of an experienced EMDR psychotherapist is an effective treatment for pain. It is believed to facilitate correction of neurological abnormalities associated with both trauma and chronic pain.

EMDR can be used for three types of EMDR trauma:

1) Traumatic memories such as explosions, witnessing deaths, a serious and or debilitating accident,

2) A memory that is related to the trauma such as social or personal/ consequences of the pain itself that are created by loss of functionality and ability .  Examples would be inability to play sports that one previously exceled at and/or enjoyed, reduced functionality at work, stigma related to disability

3) Pain that originates as a result of traumatic experiences including,

• Chronic pain associated with a traumatic event such as accidents, combat duty, assaults, medical trauma from specific procedures, it is often possible to identify a single target image or memory, so the therapy would center around the reprocessing of the target image with the goal of fully reducing the impact of the target memory.
   
• Pain that is associated with a traumatic event but there does not seem to be a single identifiable event. In these cases,  EMDR therapy would center around imagery of the pain itself or a particular pain attack, or  the experience of the pain,
  
  In this case, a careful assessment is made to identify all aspects of the pain target including physical sensations and the imagery and sensory details that the client describes about the pain.
  
  
               EMDR works for pain.This information can be found at
               http://www.overcomingpain.com/spec.html 

An interesting video on EMDR used in pain management is
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/28800265/EMDR-and-Pain