Hygeia - Hypnotherapy Performance

PAIN MANAGEMENT

ALLOWS YOU TO BE CONTROL OF YOUR BODY.

"Just relax." This advice has been given at one time or another to a patient or client. Therapeutic hypnosis is an accepted and viable modality in the care and treatment of numerous health problems and related diseases. Medical doctors, psychiatrists, dentists and psychologists use hypnotherapy as a valuable to promote wellness.

Medical

Therapeutic hypnosis has been proven to be effective in the treatment or alleviation of problems associated with psychosomatic cardiovascular disorders and coronary disease.

The efficacy of hypnotherapy has also been demonstrated in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, arthritis, metabolic diseases, obesity, hyperthyroidism, anorexia nervosa, alcoholism, respiratory disorders, bronchial asthma and a variety of allergies that may or may not have a psychogenesis component.

Hypnosis can provide analgesia for general surgery, dental surgery and a variety of invasive diagnostic procedures. Hypnotherapy can also benefit oncology, orthopedic, rehabilitation, intensive care and pediatric patients.

Therapeutic hypnosis is applicable for surgical patients. They can gain confidence that the procedure being performed will have positive results, thereby reducing preoperative fear and anxiety. Post-operative problems such as urine retention, nausea and pain can be ameliorated. Post-operative discomfort due to sitting, standing or ambulating can be alleviated.

Hypnotherapy can help intensive care patients gain much needed periods of rest and relaxation. Patients in CCU with cardiovascular insults such as supraventricular arrhythmias, paroxysmal tachycardia and ventricular ectopic beats can benefit from hypnotic relaxation and guided imagery.

Hypnotic relaxation and imagery can be applied in rehabilitation to teach patients preventative and restorative skills.

In the doctor's office, hypnotherapy can minimize pain associated with injections or diagnostic procedures, t o enhance or increase the effect of medications and traditional therapy for certain dermatological conditions.

Dental

Hypnosis in dentistry has been proven to be effective in alleviating unpleasant experiences associated with dentistry. The efficacy of hypnosis in dentistry has been well documented in modern medical literature.

YOU can experience painless dentistry by using hypnosis or self-hypnosis. A local anesthetic can provide analgesia for most dental patients but the effects of local analgesia may be less than desirable due to the patient's anxiety, tension or fear of dental procedures.

Suggested uses for hypnodontics or hypnotic anaesthesia for dentistry include the following:

1. Elimination of the patient's tension, anxiety or fear of pain and related discomfort.

2. Accustoming the patient to orthodontic or prosthetic appliances after the patient has agreed to accept them.

3. Maintenance of the patient's comfort during long and arduous periods of dental work.

4. Modification of noxious dental habits like bruxism, unconscious grinding of the teeth.

5. Reduction of anaesthesia or analgesia during dental procedures.

6. Substitution for, or in combination with, pre-medication for general anesthesia.

7. Amnesia for unpleasant work.

8. Prevention of gagging and nausea.

9. Control of salivary flow.

10. Control of bleeding.

Hypnotic Natural Childbirth

The use of hypnosis during labor and delivery can enable the mother to relax more completely than any other natural childbirth method. However, it is recommended that hypnosis be used as an adjunct to the various prepared childbirth techniques.

In order to obtain the optimum results and therapeutic objectives of hypnotic childbirth, the client should be well trained in using self-hypnosis and participate in a professionally recognized child- birth education class. Hypnosis helps by:

1. Reduction or eradication of fear, tension and pain before, during and after labor and delivery with a resultant elevation of the pain threshold.

2. Reduction of the amount of pain medication required maintaining the patient's comfort.

3. Patient control of painful uterine contractions, which may be experienced during normal labor and delivery.

4. Decreased shock and facilitate a speedier recovery.

5. Amelioration of undesirable post-operative effects.

6. Hypnosis shortens the first stage of labor by approximately three to four hours for mothers who are experiencing labor and delivery for the first time.

7. Hypnosis raises resistance to fatigue concomitant with arduous or prolonged labor. Therefore maternal exhaustion can be alleviated and mothers can be more alert and aware when their baby is born.

Pain Control

Much of the pain we experience in our daily living is due in part to stress and tension. Hypnosis has been proven to be effective in the easing of stress and tension as it relates to pain. The subjective experience of pain is also related to a variety of psychogenic factors such as the fear of pain and the conditions and circumstances surrounding the “pain experience."

Hypnosis is recommended for the management of psychogenic pain and is also useful for the management of physiological pain resulting from acute trauma or disease. There are two general classifications of pain, acute and chronic. Acute pain is associated with a sudden onset and is generally more intense than chronic pain. Chronic pain is usually of an ongoing nature and the intensity may vary. Since pain can be a warning signal of physiological dysfunction as well as the result of tension or stress, there must be a clear diagnosis as to the origin of the pain.

The most frequent indications for hypnotherapy for pain management centers around physiological and psychogenic chronic pain.

The Psychology Of Pain

There are many types of pain. From the time of birth we give the word pain a different meaning. Infants feel the pain of hunger. Adolescents feel the pain of conflicting emotions and adults feel the pain of physical exertion. We learn from the time of birth how to cope with pain. When our painful experience is associated with a traumatic injury or event, we learn the fear of pain.

The subjective experience of pain is a combination of the type of pain that is experienced and the fear of that pain. Often the fear of pain intensifies as we grow older and become aware of our helplessness to control physical or traumatic pain.

When we experience traumatic pain, we become aware of our mortality that often increases our fear of pain. This fear of pain often exacerbates a variety of chronic conditions and the severity of pain associated with these conditions. Pain can be a warning signal of physiological dysfunction but it can also be a way to cope with an emotional problem.

Pain Management Therapy

Pain causes tension and a tightening up of affected areas in the body. Our normal response to pain is to resist the pain by tightening up even more and becoming tenser. This magnifies the severity of the pain experience. Hypnotherapy can help you learn how to relax the affected areas of the body causing pain and eliminate the associated fear, stress and tension. Psychogenic pain may be alleviated with imagery that enables you to dissolve and dismiss the pain.

Pain management therapy is enhanced when you, the client are taught self-hypnosis and are able to reinforce therapeutic suggestions at home or work.

Hypnotherapy can be use for many other things,

the possibilities are unlimited.