Southwestern Clinical Hypnotherapy
Life, Health, and Well-Being

Pain Management through Medical Hypnosis

Research has shown hypnosis to be helpful for acute and chronic pain. In    1996, a panel of the National Institutes of Health found hypnosis to be effective in easing cancer pain. More recent studies have demonstrated its effectiveness for pain related to burns, cancer, and rheumatoid arthritis and reduction of anxiety associated with surgery. An analysis of 18 studies by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York revealed moderate to large pain-relieving effects from hypnosis, supporting the effectiveness of hypnotic techniques for pain management, with medical hypnosis.

• Hypnosis is an astonishingly effective way of reducing – and even  removing pain responses.
• Pain is an essential signal that needs addressing.
  
• Pain can be regarded as acute or chronic.
• We can break down black and white, all or nothing thinking around pain.
• Hypnosis is a naturally cataleptic and dissociated state.
• We can use distraction, reframing, numbing and disassociation to help relieve pain.