Preparation For
Medical or Dental Procedure
Hypnotherapy is Proven:
To reduce Anxiety, Discomfort and Pain; Before, During and After surgery.1,2Most people feel anxious about medical and dental procedures and this is normal. But if you’re feeling overwhelmed or would just like to feel a good deal more comfortable, hypnotherapy can help.
To reduce Pain Medications during and after surgery while making the surgery both faster and safer.3
To Speed Healing of Bone and Soft Tissue.4,5
Authoritative studies have consistently shown that the use of hypnotherapy to reduce anxiety and pain is very effective.1,2,6 Patients actually ask for and use less medication during and after the procedure.3 Even in situations where the patient presses a button to administer more pain meds whenever they want it - they still use less.6
Less anxiety and less pain would seem to be enough but even healing from wounds or surgeries is accelerated with hypnotherapy.4 Even broken bones heal faster.5
Hypnotherapy in the operating room is becoming more common place because patients using hypnotherapy are more medically stable, need fewer emergency interventions and spend shorter time in the OR.6 This won’t save the patient any money but it will drive the research sponsored by National Institutes of Health, because Medicare will save very big indeed.
As Spiegel (2007) writes:
"Thus, the study in this issue contributes to an impressive body of research using randomized prospective methodology in sizeable patient populations to demonstrate that adjunctive hypnosis substantially reduces pain and anxiety during surgical procedures while decreasing medication use, procedure time, and cost. If a drug were to do that, everyone would by now be using it."Call for additional information and to discuss your case. I will liaise as necessary with your physicians.
Try to allow 4 weeks before the procedure.
For childbirth conditioning try to allow 8 weeks before due date.
You’ll be more relaxed and more comfortable not only during the procedure but also in the days leading up to it, as well as during recovery.Call Now For A Convenient Appointment.
References
1 Lang, E. V., (2000, May 15). Relaxation Technique Reduces Patient Anxiety Before Surgery. American Family Physician 61 (10): p. 30972 Spiegel, D., (2007). The mind prepared: Hypnosis in surgery. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99 (17):1280-1281
3 Butler, L. D., Symons, B. K., Henderson, S. L., Shortliffe, L. D. & Spiegel, D. (2005, Jan). Hypnosis reduces distress and duration of an invasive medical procedure for children. Pediatrics 115 (1): 77-85
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.
5 Ginandes, C. S. & Rosenthal, D. I., (1999, Mar). Using hypnosis to accelerate the healing of bone fractures: A randomized controlled pilot study. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 5 (2):67-75.
6 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
Please Note;
Many scholarly journals cannot be accessed without a subscription. University and hospital libraries, research facilities, and some city and county libraries have gateway subscriptions to multiple journals and can access these papers for you.
If you are unable to gain access to a paper to which I’ve referred, please contact this office.
