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Hypnosis key to breast cancer pain management?
Posted Aug 29th 2007 2:33PM by Brian White
Filed under: Breast Cancer
If you've had breast cancer surgery, you may have heard of being hypnotized beforehand to alleviate the need for more-than-needed anesthesia. Sounds weird, but a clinical trial of 200 cancer patients showed that
hypnosis was more effective than counseling in this area.
Is this further proof that there is a strong link between mind and body? That link has always existed, contrary to main western medical practitioners (like pure scientists) who require proven evidence. The mind and body work in concert in almost every way. At least, they do in my opinion. Your mileage may vary.
In the study, 100 women underwent hypnosis for 15 minutes one hour before breast cancer surgery while a second group had counseling sessions for the same 15 minutes. Complications like more pain and more anesthesia were less prevalent in the hypnosis group.
Tags: breast cancer, BreastCancer, hypnosis
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