Hypnosis is often associated with silly stunts, but medicine is now starting to embrace it, spurred on by studies showing it can help with chronic pain – even if we don’t understand why.
Lina Gutierrez remembers her mother’s late-night hug. Tears. And a cramping pain, deep in her stomach, waking her suddenly from her slumber.
For decades, hypnotists were associated with swinging pocket watches in circus tents and grown adults clucking like chickens. During hypnotherapy, you lie back on the couch and are placed in a state of deep relaxation – typically by following a progressive muscle relaxation technique, similar to yoga.Peters has her IBS patients imagine walking into a pharmacy to collect a bottle of medicine specially formulated for just them. They swallow the medicine and it goes down, down, all the way down, coating the stomach in a protective gel, shielding it from irritation.– not a cure, but a big improvement .
“It is a very credible study that I would take seriously, despite the mechanisms for how it works remaining completely uncertain,” said Professor Nick Spencer, a leading gut neuroscientist at Flinders University. “Based on these findings it presents a genuine therapy for IBS patients”.
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