Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
In a media release in May 2012, the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) had this to say about hypnosis and pain management: Hypnosis can be used for all patients for pain relief including, in some instances, as a form of analgesia for surgery, a Perth conference of anaesthetists and pain specialists will…
In a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Medicine*, Gary Elkins PhD describes a clinical study where six patients were treated with hypnosis prior to undergoing a colonoscopy procedure. In all cases, anxiety and discomfort levels were considerably reduced. Hypnosis is a mind-body intervention that has been used to manage pain and anxiety…
Many studies have shown that hypnotherapy is highly effective in the treatment of vaginismus and in the control of the extremely painful spasms associated with it. In a study published in ScienceDirect’*, Reza Pourhosein and Zeynab Bahrami Ehsan of the Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, and the Department of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney,…