Tooley Transformation - Hypnosis Helping the Body Heal: Harvard Medical School Study

"If somebody told you there was a medication that could treat 100 different conditions, didn't require a prescription, was free, and had no bad side effects, you wouldn't believe them," says Harvard Medical School psychologist Carol Ginandes, PhD. "I don't want to sound like a snake oil salesman, because hypnosis is not a magic wand. But it should be made available as a supplementary treatment for all patients who could benefit. Right now."

In a 2003 pilot study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Ginandes and colleague Patricia Brooks, PhD, evaluated 18 women who'd just undergone reconstructive breast surgery. The patients were assigned randomly to one of three groups for 8 weeks. All groups received conventional follow-up care; the second also met weekly with a therapist for emotional support; while the third met individually with Brooks, who used hypnotic suggestion in a 30-minute session each week to reduce pain and inflammation and speed soft-tissue repair. An audiotape was made for each woman in the hypnosis group so she could practice self-hypnosis daily at home.

One week after surgery and again after 7 more weeks, a surgical team, which was "blinded" to the therapy assignments, assessed the incision sites. Their conclusion: The hypnosis patients healed much faster. The women also reported that they experienced less pain and quicker recovery.

An earlier Ginandes pilot study on hypnosis and bone fractures, funded by the National Institutes of Health, found similar results: faster healing, greater mobility, less discomfort, and reduced use of pain medication among orthopedic patients who used hypnosis.

Reproduced here from The Healing Power of Hypnosis by Alexis Jetter, PREVENTION, March 2006

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