Relieve Pain With Hypnotherapy

Relieve Pain

With Hypnotherapy

Blocking pain REQUIRES a physician referral.

Hypnosis-like states to control pain and induce healing have been used for millennia. Now with sophisticated imaging equipment we are able to view the workings of the brain non-invasively during hypnosis. The results of these brain scans visibly prove that hypnosis alters our perception of pain.¹

It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe in hypnosis or if you think you can’t be hypnotized. It doesn’t matter if you’re male or female, young or elderly.²

Everyone’s pain threshold can be increased, resulting in less pain, less anxiety, and less pain medication.³

Even healing is faster and more comfortable with Hypnotherapy.⁴

Many studies show that procedural anxiety and pain, surprisingly, is the most amenable to hypnotherapy. This may be in part because it is the most studied.

What type or source of pain can be modified or alleviated with hypnotherapy?

Simply put, ALL PAIN !

Including;

• Injury
• Surgery (Patient is always able to hear and respond to doctor’s directions.)
• Arthritis
• Over Use
• Childbirth (Mother is always able to hear and respond to coaching directions.)
• Headache
• Phantom Limb
• Even pain from psychosomatic origins.*

*Psychosomatic pain sometimes requires psychotherapy to eliminate the psychological reason for the pain. Otherwise the pain may break through.

Variables of Hypnotic Pain Relief

• It can be turned off and on.

• It can block pain and let other sensation through.

• The degree of blocking can be varied from 0% to 100%.

• It can be set up to be there sometimes and sometimes not.
To block pain while you’re resting, so you’re comfortable most of the time. And to partially block pain when you’re up to use the bathroom, so you remain cautious and don’t overdo and injure yourself further.

• Or to not block pain at all when your physician is examining you.
So an accurate evaluation of your condition can be made.

• It can be set up with a threshold.
To block pain during physical therapy, up to a certain threshold, but as you approach the threshold, normal feelings begin to rush in.
This protects you from overdoing, yet allows you to work hard to get the most from your therapy.

Hypnotic pain relief can be tailored to any number of variables to fit your special needs.

If you’re in pain and can't or don't want to use medication or it isn’t working enough;

Dr. Bushnell, speaking of her research that won the American Pain Society’s Frederick Kerr Award for pain research (Manzer, 2003), referred to hypnosis this way;
“You are actually reducing that pain, just as if you’d given them a shot of morphine.”

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References

¹ Manzer, J. (2003, April 15). Brain images lend new insight into pain control. Medical Post, Toronto 39 (15): p. 18

² Lutgendorf, S. K., Lang, E. V., Berbaum, K. S., Russell, D., Berbaum, M. L., Logan, H., et al. (2007, Feb-Mar). Effects of age on responsiveness to adjunct hypnotic analgesia during invasive medical procedures. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69 (2):191-9

³ Lang, E. V., Benotsch, E. G., Fick, L. J., Lutgendorf, S., Berbaum, M. L., Berbaum, K. S., et al. (2000, Apr 29). Adjunctive non-pharmacological analgesia for invasive medical procedures: a randomized trial. Lancet 355 (9214):1486-90

⁴ Ginandes, C., Brooks, P., Sando, W., Jones, C. & Aker, J. (2003, Apr). Can medical hypnosis accelerate post-surgical wound healing? Results of a clinical trial. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis 45 (4):333-51.

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