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Hypnotherapy Relieves Chest Pain
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I can't seem to find the full text of this article, but it looks interesting. I'm curious as to whether they screened subjects for hypnotic susceptibility beforehand.
I did some brief coursework on hypnotherapy and practiced doing some hypnotic inductions myself. From what I learned, only 5-15% of patients fall into the highly hypnotizable category, and are the people that can really benefit from it (e.g. undergo outpatient surgery without any anesthesia, which is fascinating). There was a short article in Times Magazine a few months ago on the use of hypnoanalgesia in European medicine, where its more accepted.
Too bad there's a huge stigma to doing hypnosis research, I've heard of people having a hard time getting good research funded and published because of the history that hypnosis has with stage entertainment.
I did some brief coursework on hypnotherapy and practiced doing some hypnotic inductions myself. From what I learned, only 5-15% of patients fall into the highly hypnotizable category, and are the people that can really benefit from it (e.g. undergo outpatient surgery without any anesthesia, which is fascinating). There was a short article in Times Magazine a few months ago on the use of hypnoanalgesia in European medicine, where its more accepted.
Too bad there's a huge stigma to doing hypnosis research, I've heard of people having a hard time getting good research funded and published because of the history that hypnosis has with stage entertainment.
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PublicHealth said:
Meanwhile, while you're nice and relaxed, the ischemia in your heart continues to grow as the blood flow to your RCA, LAD, and obtuse marginals continues to be cut off secondary to the thrombus which occludes them as a result of pervasive CAD.
If you are having angina, or any serious non costochondral chest pain, you need prompt medical attention, not alternative bullsh|t "tx". To delay immediate medical attention in favor of hypnosis is irresponsible and dangerous. If the CP is secondary to CAD/ASHD, the pt needs an immediate cardiac work-up and most likely a cath + PTCA w/ stenting, NOT hynpotherapy.
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ProZackMI said:
Right...for cardiac chest pain. This article describes hypnotherapy for "non-cardiac chest pain of uncertain origin." Coronary angiography was normal and oesophageal reflux (24-hr pH monitoring) was not contributory to the pain. Further, these patients did not respond to proton pump inhibitors and had normal gastroscopy results. They were also allowed to be on their current medications when participating in this study.
In other words, hypnotherapy was an adjunctive treatment for non-cardiac chest pain in these patients. We cannot neglect the role of stress-related factors in cardiac symptomatology! Your description above supports Descartes dualistic notion about mind and body. Thankfully, the British are more "biopsychosocial" in their approach to medicine.
