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RESEARCH
Clinical 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” (Patterson, & Jenson, 2003)
Chronic Pain
Various chronic pain problems include back, nerve injury, cancer-related, Arthritis Pain, and Fibromyalgia.
“Studies show hypnosis as a potentially helpful treatment for reducing the pain associated with chronic pain conditions” (Patterson, & Jenson, 2003).
Labor Pain/Childbirth
“Labor pain represents another type of acute pain that is a candidate for hypnotic intervention. Moya and James (1960) and Flowers, Littlejohn, and Wells (1960) reported earlier studies on the clinical benefits of hypnosis for pregnancy. Davidson (1962) also published an earlier successful trial of hypnosis for labor, although this study did not feature a randomized assignment to study groups. Mothers in this study that received six sessions of posthypnotic suggestions for relaxation and pain relief during labor prior to giving birth showed shorter Stage 1 labor, reported that analgesia was more effective, reported less labor pain, and indicated that labor was a more pleasant experience”(Moya,& James, 1960).
“Case studies that support the use of hypnosis for a wide variety of clinical pain conditions.
“Perhaps the most time honored of these are those of Esdaile(1957), a Scottish physician, who reported on 345 major operations performed in India in the nineteenth century with hypnosis (termed mesmerism at that time) as the sole anesthetic. Similarly, E. R. Hilgard and Hilgard (1975) listed at least 14 different types of surgeries (cited by multiple investigators) for which hypnosis was used as the sole anesthetic, including appendectomies, gastrostomies, tumor excisions, and vaginal hysterectomies. Rausch (1980) reported undergoing a cholecystectomy using self-hypnosis and being able to walk consciously back to his room immediately after the procedure.”
Burn injuries-
“Are another source of severe pain for which there are multiple reports of good patient response to hypnosis (Patterson, Questad, & Boltwood, l987; Gilboa, Borenstein,Seidman, & Tsur, 1990), and B. L. Finer and Nylen (1961)reported bringing a patient through several extensive burn surgeries with hypnosis as the sole anesthetic.
Other Case Studies Have Described a Wide Variety of Problems That Have Responded to Hypnosis.
“Including pain associated with dental work (J. Barber, 1977; J. Barber & Mayer, 1977; Hartland, 1971), cancer (J. R. Hilgard & LeBaron, 1984), reflex sympathetic dystrophy (Gainer, 1992), acquired amputation (Chaves, 1986; Siegel, 1979), childbirth (Haanen et al., 1991), spinal cord injury (M. Jensen & Barber, 2000), sickle cell anemia (Dinges et al., 1997), arthritis (Appel, 1992; Crasilneck, 1995), temporomandibular joint disorder (Crasilneck, 1995; Simon & Lewis, 2000), multiple sclerosis (Dane, 1996; Sutcher, 1997), causalgia (B. Finer & Graf, 1968), lupus erythematosus (S. J. Smith & Balaban, 1983), postsurgical pain (Mauer, Burnett, Ouellette, Ironson, & Dandes, 1999), and unanesthetized fracture reduction (Iserson, 1999).
Other types of pain problems reported to respond to hypnotic analgesia include low back pain (Crasilneck, 1979, 1995), headaches (Crasilneck, 1995; Spinhoven, 1988), and mixed chronic pain (F. J. Evans, 1989; Jack, 1999; Sacerdote, 1978). Even this long list of pain etiologies is by no means exhaustive. In short, hypnosis has been reported to be useful for virtually every clinical pain problem”
References:
Appel, P. R. (1992). The use of hypnosis in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Psychiatric Medicine, 10, 133–148.
Barber, J., & Mayer, D. (1977). Evaluation of the efficacy and neural mechanism of a hypnotic analgesia procedure in experimental and clinical dental pain. Pain, 4, 41–48.
Chaves, J. F. (1986). Hypnosis in the management of phantom limb pain. In E. Dowd & J. Healy (Eds.), Case studies in hypnotherapy (pp.198–209). New York: Guilford Press.
Crasilneck, H. B. (1995). The use of the Crasilneck Bombardment Technique in problems of intractable organic pain. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 37, 255–266.
Crasilneck, H. B. (1979). Hypnosis in the control of chronic low back pain.American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 22, 71–78.
Crasilneck, H. B., Stirman, J. A., & Wilson, B. J. (1955). Use of hypnosis in the management of patients with burns. Journal of the American Medical Association, 158, 103–106.
Dane, J. R. (1996). Hypnosis for pain and neuromuscular rehabilitation with multiple sclerosis: Case summary, literature review, and analysis of outcomes. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis,44, 208–231.
Dinges, D. F., Whitehouse, W. G., Orne, E. C., Bloom, P. B., Carlin, M. M., Bauer, N. K., et al. (1997). Self-hypnosis training as an adjunctive treatment in the management of pain associated with sickle cell disease. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 45, 417–432.
Evans, F. J. (1989). Hypnosis and chronic pain. Two contrasting case studies. Clinical Journal of Pain, 5, 169–176.
Finer, B., & Graf, K. (1968). Circulatory changes accompanying hypnotic imagination of hyperalgesia and hypoalgesia in causalgic limbs.Zeitschrift fur die Gesamte experimentelle Medizin einschliesslich experimentelle Chirurgie, 146, 97–114. Gainer, M. J. (1992). Hypnotherapy for reflex sympathetic dystrophy. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 34, 227–232.
Haanen, H. C., Hoenderdos, H. T., van Romunde, L. K., Hop, W. C., Mallee, C., Terwiel, J. P., & Hekster, G. B. (1991). Controlled trial of hypnotherapy in the treatment of refractory fibromyalgia. Journal of Rheumatology, 18, 72–75.
Hartland, J. (1971). Medical and dental hypnosis. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins. Hilgard, J. R., & LeBaron, S. (1984). Hypnotherapy of pain in children with cancer. Los Altos, CA: Kaufman. Iserson, K. V. (1999). Hypnosis for pediatric fracture reduction. Journal of Emergency Medicine, 17, 53–66.
Jack, M. S. (1999). The use of hypnosis for a patient with chronic pain.Contemporary Hypnosis, 16, 231–237.
Jensen, M., & Barber, J. (2000). Hypnotic analgesia of spinal cord injury pain. Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 28, 150–168.
Mauer, M. H., Burnett, K. F., Ouellette, E. A., Ironson, G. H., & Dandes,H. M. (1999). Medical hypnosis and orthopedic hand surgery: Pain perception, postoperative recovery, and therapeutic comfort. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 47, 144–161.
Moya, F., & James, L. S. (1960). Medical hypnosis for obstetrics. Journal of the American Medical Association, 174, 80–86.
Patterson, David R.; Jensen, Mark P.(2003) “Hypnosis and Clinical Pain”. University of Washington School of Medicine Psychological Bulletin, Vol 129(4), Jul 2003, 495-521. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.4.495
Sacerdote, P. (1978). Teaching self-hypnosis to patients with chronic pain.Journal of Human Stress, 4, 18–21.
Siegel, E. F. (1979). Control of phantom limb pain by hypnosis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 21, 285–286.
Simon, E. P., & Lewis, D. M. (2000). Medical hypnosis for temporomandibular disorders: Treatment efficacy and medical utilization outcome.Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics, 90, 54–63.Smith, S. J., & Balaban, A. B. (1983). A multidimensional approach to pain relief: Case report of a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 31, 72–81.
Spinhoven, P. (1988). Similarities and dissimilarities in hypnotic and nonhypnotic procedures for headache control: A review. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 30, 183–194.
Sutcher, H. (1997). Hypnosis as adjunctive therapy for multiple sclerosis: A progress report. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 39, 283–290.
RESEARCH
Clinical 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” (Patterson, & Jenson, 2003)
Chronic Pain
Various chronic pain problems include back, nerve injury, cancer-related, Arthritis Pain, and Fibromyalgia.
“Studies show hypnosis as a potentially helpful treatment for reducing the pain associated with chronic pain conditions” (Patterson, & Jenson, 2003).
Labor Pain/Childbirth
“Labor pain represents another type of acute pain that is a candidate for hypnotic intervention. Moya and James (1960) and Flowers, Littlejohn, and Wells (1960) reported earlier studies on the clinical benefits of hypnosis for pregnancy. Davidson (1962) also published an earlier successful trial of hypnosis for labor, although this study did not feature a randomized assignment to study groups. Mothers in this study that received six sessions of posthypnotic suggestions for relaxation and pain relief during labor prior to giving birth showed shorter Stage 1 labor, reported that analgesia was more effective, reported less labor pain, and indicated that labor was a more pleasant experience”(Moya,& James, 1960).
“Case studies that support the use of hypnosis for a wide variety of clinical pain conditions.
“Perhaps the most time honored of these are those of Esdaile(1957), a Scottish physician, who reported on 345 major operations performed in India in the nineteenth century with hypnosis (termed mesmerism at that time) as the sole anesthetic. Similarly, E. R. Hilgard and Hilgard (1975) listed at least 14 different types of surgeries (cited by multiple investigators) for which hypnosis was used as the sole anesthetic, including appendectomies, gastrostomies, tumor excisions, and vaginal hysterectomies. Rausch (1980) reported undergoing a cholecystectomy using self-hypnosis and being able to walk consciously back to his room immediately after the procedure.”
Burn injuries-
“Are another source of severe pain for which there are multiple reports of good patient response to hypnosis (Patterson, Questad, & Boltwood, l987; Gilboa, Borenstein,Seidman, & Tsur, 1990), and B. L. Finer and Nylen (1961)reported bringing a patient through several extensive burn surgeries with hypnosis as the sole anesthetic.
Other Case Studies Have Described a Wide Variety of Problems That Have Responded to Hypnosis.
“Including pain associated with dental work (J. Barber, 1977; J. Barber & Mayer, 1977; Hartland, 1971), cancer (J. R. Hilgard & LeBaron, 1984), reflex sympathetic dystrophy (Gainer, 1992), acquired amputation (Chaves, 1986; Siegel, 1979), childbirth (Haanen et al., 1991), spinal cord injury (M. Jensen & Barber, 2000), sickle cell anemia (Dinges et al., 1997), arthritis (Appel, 1992; Crasilneck, 1995), temporomandibular joint disorder (Crasilneck, 1995; Simon & Lewis, 2000), multiple sclerosis (Dane, 1996; Sutcher, 1997), causalgia (B. Finer & Graf, 1968), lupus erythematosus (S. J. Smith & Balaban, 1983), postsurgical pain (Mauer, Burnett, Ouellette, Ironson, & Dandes, 1999), and unanesthetized fracture reduction (Iserson, 1999).
Other types of pain problems reported to respond to hypnotic analgesia include low back pain (Crasilneck, 1979, 1995), headaches (Crasilneck, 1995; Spinhoven, 1988), and mixed chronic pain (F. J. Evans, 1989; Jack, 1999; Sacerdote, 1978). Even this long list of pain etiologies is by no means exhaustive. In short, hypnosis has been reported to be useful for virtually every clinical pain problem”
References:
Appel, P. R. (1992). The use of hypnosis in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Psychiatric Medicine, 10, 133–148.
Barber, J., & Mayer, D. (1977). Evaluation of the efficacy and neural mechanism of a hypnotic analgesia procedure in experimental and clinical dental pain. Pain, 4, 41–48.
Chaves, J. F. (1986). Hypnosis in the management of phantom limb pain. In E. Dowd & J. Healy (Eds.), Case studies in hypnotherapy (pp.198–209). New York: Guilford Press.
Crasilneck, H. B. (1995). The use of the Crasilneck Bombardment Technique in problems of intractable organic pain. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 37, 255–266.
Crasilneck, H. B. (1979). Hypnosis in the control of chronic low back pain.American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 22, 71–78.
Crasilneck, H. B., Stirman, J. A., & Wilson, B. J. (1955). Use of hypnosis in the management of patients with burns. Journal of the American Medical Association, 158, 103–106.
Dane, J. R. (1996). Hypnosis for pain and neuromuscular rehabilitation with multiple sclerosis: Case summary, literature review, and analysis of outcomes. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis,44, 208–231.
Dinges, D. F., Whitehouse, W. G., Orne, E. C., Bloom, P. B., Carlin, M. M., Bauer, N. K., et al. (1997). Self-hypnosis training as an adjunctive treatment in the management of pain associated with sickle cell disease. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 45, 417–432.
Evans, F. J. (1989). Hypnosis and chronic pain. Two contrasting case studies. Clinical Journal of Pain, 5, 169–176.
Finer, B., & Graf, K. (1968). Circulatory changes accompanying hypnotic imagination of hyperalgesia and hypoalgesia in causalgic limbs.Zeitschrift fur die Gesamte experimentelle Medizin einschliesslich experimentelle Chirurgie, 146, 97–114. Gainer, M. J. (1992). Hypnotherapy for reflex sympathetic dystrophy. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 34, 227–232.
Haanen, H. C., Hoenderdos, H. T., van Romunde, L. K., Hop, W. C., Mallee, C., Terwiel, J. P., & Hekster, G. B. (1991). Controlled trial of hypnotherapy in the treatment of refractory fibromyalgia. Journal of Rheumatology, 18, 72–75.
Hartland, J. (1971). Medical and dental hypnosis. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins. Hilgard, J. R., & LeBaron, S. (1984). Hypnotherapy of pain in children with cancer. Los Altos, CA: Kaufman. Iserson, K. V. (1999). Hypnosis for pediatric fracture reduction. Journal of Emergency Medicine, 17, 53–66.
Jack, M. S. (1999). The use of hypnosis for a patient with chronic pain.Contemporary Hypnosis, 16, 231–237.
Jensen, M., & Barber, J. (2000). Hypnotic analgesia of spinal cord injury pain. Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 28, 150–168.
Mauer, M. H., Burnett, K. F., Ouellette, E. A., Ironson, G. H., & Dandes,H. M. (1999). Medical hypnosis and orthopedic hand surgery: Pain perception, postoperative recovery, and therapeutic comfort. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 47, 144–161.
Moya, F., & James, L. S. (1960). Medical hypnosis for obstetrics. Journal of the American Medical Association, 174, 80–86.
Patterson, David R.; Jensen, Mark P.(2003) “Hypnosis and Clinical Pain”. University of Washington School of Medicine Psychological Bulletin, Vol 129(4), Jul 2003, 495-521. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.4.495
Sacerdote, P. (1978). Teaching self-hypnosis to patients with chronic pain.Journal of Human Stress, 4, 18–21.
Siegel, E. F. (1979). Control of phantom limb pain by hypnosis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 21, 285–286.
Simon, E. P., & Lewis, D. M. (2000). Medical hypnosis for temporomandibular disorders: Treatment efficacy and medical utilization outcome.Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics, 90, 54–63.Smith, S. J., & Balaban, A. B. (1983). A multidimensional approach to pain relief: Case report of a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 31, 72–81.
Spinhoven, P. (1988). Similarities and dissimilarities in hypnotic and nonhypnotic procedures for headache control: A review. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 30, 183–194.
Sutcher, H. (1997). Hypnosis as adjunctive therapy for multiple sclerosis: A progress report. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 39, 283–290.