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HYPNOSIS WORKS to REDUCE PAIN
(Chronic & Acute)
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- Completely Safe
- Proven Effective
- Permanent
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Perhaps you saw
the feature article television’s 60 minutes had on hypnosis for
childbirth. Or maybe you've read some of the findings from the
National Institutes of Health or The Journal of the American Medical
Association or Stanford University that all endorse hypnosis to reduce
pain. Either way, after dozens of studies spanning decades hypnosis
has been proven to work to reduce pain - both chronic and acute.
Hypnosis can
enable you to release natural pain-blockers called encaphalins and
endorphins into your body that lessen or eliminate suffering. It
can also help you learn to tune out chronic pain.
To give you a
simple idea of how this works: Wiggle your toes. What do
you feel? Your socks? Your shoes? The floor?
Now here's the
big question: Why didn't you feel those things until I brought
your attention to them? The reason is that your unconscious mind
decided to tune out the sensations because they weren't
important. Your brain did it automatically and does that all the
time.
What if you
could teach your subconscious mind to tune out pain as easily as you
did the feeling of the shoes on your feet?
Hypnosis has
been used for arthritis patients, victims of back injury, cancer
victims, IBS and fibromyalgia patients successfully.
It's even been
used to dramatically lower the acute pain of childbirth.
Dr. Volz will use Hypnosis to help you learn to
diminish and manage your pain - potentially even eliminating it
altogether.
But don't just take our word for it, ask Hugh Burkhart.
He had suffered pain so severe over
15 years that he had actually undergone over 30 epidural block
procedures. But after his hypnosis treatments his pain was so
significantly reduced that he actually volunteered to help victims of
the New Orleans flood of 2006!
Then
contact
us and we'll help you too!
Research
Proving Hypnosis Works
to Reduce Pain
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Reference |
Hypnosis Reduces Frequency
and Intensity of Migraines
Compared the treatment
of migraine by hypnosis and autohypnosis with the treatment of migraine
by the drug prochlorperazine (Stemetil)
Results show that the number of attacks and the number who suffered
blinding attacks were significantly lower for the group receiving
hypnotherapy than for the group receiving prochlorperazine. For the
group on hypnotherapy, these 2 measures were significantly lower when
on hypnotherapy than when on previous treatment. It is concluded that
further trials of hypnotherapy are justified against some other
treatment not solely associated with the ingestion of tablets. |
Anderson JA, Basker MA, Dalton R Migraine
and hypnotherapy International Journal of Clinical & Experimental
Hypnosis 1975; 23(1): 48-58. |
Hypnosis Reduces Pain and Speeds up Recovery from
Surgery
Since 1992, we have used
hypnosis routinely in more than 1400 patients undergoing surgery. We
found that hypnosis used in patients as an adjunct to conscious
sedation and local anesthesia was associated with improved
intraoperative patient comfort, and with reduced anxiety, pain,
intraoperative requirements for anxiolytic and analgesic drugs, optimal
surgical conditions and a faster recovery of the patient. We reported
our clinical experience and our fundamental research. |
[Hypnosis and its application in
surgery]
[Article in French]
Faymonville ME, Defechereux T, Joris J, Adant JP, Hamoir E, Meurisse M.
Service d'Anesthesie-Reanimation, Universite de Liege.
Rev Med Liege. 1998 Jul;53(7):414-8.
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Hypnosis Reduces Pain Intensity
Analysis of the simple-simple main effects, holding both
group and condition constant, revealed that application of hypnotic
analgesia reduced report of pain intensity significantly more than
report of pain unpleasantness. |
Dahlgren LA. Kurtz RM. Strube MJ. Malone
MD. Differential effects of hypnotic suggestion on multiple dimensions
of pain. Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. 1995; 10(6): 464-70. |
Hypnosis Reduces Pain of
Headaches and Anxiety
The improvement was confirmed by the subjective evaluation
data gathered with the use of a questionnaire and by a significant
reduction in anxiety scores. |
Melis PM. Rooimans W. Spierings EL.
Hoogduin CA. Treatment of chronic tension-type headache with
hypnotherapy: a single-blind time controlled study. Headache 1991;
31(10): 686-9. |
Hypnosis Lowered Post-treatment Pain in Burn Injuries
Patients in the hypnosis group reported less post treatment
pain than did patients in the control group. The findings are used to
replicate earlier studies of burn pain hypnoanalgesia, explain
discrepancies in the literature, and highlight the potential importance
of motivation with this population. |
Patterson DR. Ptacek JT. Baseline pain as a
moderator of hypnotic analgesia for burn injury treatment. Journal of
Consulting & Clinical Psychology 1997; 65(1): 60-7. |
Hypnosis Lowered Phantom Limb
Pain
Hypnotic procedures appear to be a useful adjunct to
established strategies for the treatment of phantom limb pain and would
repay further, more systematic, investigation. Suggestions are provided
as to the factors which should be considered for a more systematic
research program. |
Treatment of phantom limb pain using
hypnotic imagery.
Oakley DA, Whitman LG, Halligan
PW.Department of Psychology, University College London, UK.
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Hypnosis Has a Reliable and Significant Impact on
Acute and Chronic Pain
Hypnosis has been demonstrated
to reduce analogue pain, and studies on the mechanisms of laboratory
pain reduction have provided useful applications to clinical
populations. Studies showing central nervous system activity during
hypnotic procedures offer preliminary information concerning possible
physiological mechanisms of hypnotic analgesia. Randomized controlled
studies with clinical populations indicate that hypnosis has a reliable
and significant impact on acute procedural pain and chronic pain
conditions. Methodological issues of this body of research are
discussed, as are methods to better integrate hypnosis into
comprehensive pain treatment. |
Hypnosis and clinical pain.
Patterson DR, Jensen MP.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School
of Medicine, Seattle 98104
Psychol Bull. 2003 Jul;129(4):495-521.
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Hypnosis is a Powerful Tool in Pain
Therapy and is Biological in Addiction to Psychological
Attempting to elucidate
cerebral mechanisms behind hypnotic analgesia, we measured regional
cerebral blood flow with positron emission tomography in patients with
fibromyalgia, during hypnotically-induced analgesia and resting
wakefulness. The patients experienced less pain during hypnosis than at
rest. The cerebral blood-flow was bilaterally increased in the
orbitofrontal and subcallosial cingulate cortices, the right thalamus,
and the left inferior parietal cortex, and was decreased bilaterally in
the cingulate cortex. The observed blood-flow pattern supports notions
of a multifactorial nature of hypnotic analgesia, with an interplay
between cortical and subcortical brain dynamics. Copyright 1999
European Federation of Chapters of the International Association for
the Study of Pain. |
Functional anatomy of hypnotic analgesia: a
PET study of patients with fibromyalgia.
Wik G, Fischer H, Bragee B, Finer B, Fredrikson M.
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Institute and
Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Eur J Pain. 1999 Mar;3(1):7-12.
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Hypnosis Useful in Hospital Emergency Rooms
Hypnosis can be a useful
adjunct in the emergency department setting. Its efficacy in various
clinical applications has been replicated in controlled studies.
Application to burns, pain, pediatric procedures, surgery, psychiatric
presentations (e.g., coma, somatoform disorder, anxiety, and
posttraumatic stress), and obstetric situations (e.g., hyperemesis,
labor, and delivery) are described. |
Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2000
May;18(2):327-38, x.
The use of hypnosis in emergency medicine.
Peebles-Kleiger MJ.
Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences,
Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas, USA. peeblemj@menninger.edu
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