Hypnotherapy Treatment for IBS
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Is Hypnotherapy A Good Alternative Treatment for IBS?
It's pleasant, it's relaxing and most importantly - it works! More and more medical studies are showing hypnotherapy to be a safe and effective treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
In a recent study in Manchester, UK, doctors found that hypnotherapy helped 70 per cent of IBS patients who tried it. People who have experienced hypnotherapy say it has the advantage of being able to relieve all the different degrees and types of pain caused by IBS.
If you've been diagnosed with IBS and had little success with medications such as anti-spasmodics and muscle relaxants, then why not consider hypnotherapy?
If you want to try this treatment for IBS, there are two options.
1. Visit a trained hypnotherapist specializing in gut-directed hypnotherapy
2. Use one of the excellent home self-hypnosis programs that focus on the intestine. Healthy Audio's program is highly recommended.
Healthy Audio Ltd: Clinical hypnotherapy programmes as audio CD or mp3 download
But, please first make sure you have a proper diagnosis for IBS and that you have not got another condition with similar symptoms. And, if you have been diagnosed with IBS, please check with your doctor before trying any alternative treatments.
In a recent study in Manchester, UK, doctors found that hypnotherapy helped 70 per cent of IBS patients who tried it. People who have experienced hypnotherapy say it has the advantage of being able to relieve all the different degrees and types of pain caused by IBS.
If you've been diagnosed with IBS and had little success with medications such as anti-spasmodics and muscle relaxants, then why not consider hypnotherapy?
If you want to try this treatment for IBS, there are two options.
1. Visit a trained hypnotherapist specializing in gut-directed hypnotherapy
2. Use one of the excellent home self-hypnosis programs that focus on the intestine. Healthy Audio's program is highly recommended.
Healthy Audio Ltd: Clinical hypnotherapy programmes as audio CD or mp3 download
But, please first make sure you have a proper diagnosis for IBS and that you have not got another condition with similar symptoms. And, if you have been diagnosed with IBS, please check with your doctor before trying any alternative treatments.
Feel Good Factor
So What's Hypnosis Like?
Most people find hypnosis extremely pleasant! The feeling is like that lazy relaxation you experience just before you go to sleep or as you wake up.In fact, what hypnosis does is to put you into the state of altered consciousness between sleep and wakefulness.
In this state, barriers between the conscious and subconscious mind break down, allowing the patient and therapist to get to the heart of the problem.
Also, through hypnotherapy IBS sufferers learn techniques to cope with their symptoms.
How Does Hypnotherapy Treatment for IBS Work?
Firstly, by putting the patient in a deeply relaxed state it relieves stress. Anyone with IBS knows only too well that tension and mental distress make the symptoms much worse.
Secondly, hypnotherapy seems to work by improving connections between brain and gut. Recent research shows that IBS may be caused by some miscommunication between bowel and nervous system. This can cause the gut muscles to contract in the wrong way and at the wrong time, causing all the pain, discomfort, bloating, constipation and diarrhoea that make the condition so unpleasant.
Our gut muscles are controlled by the "involuntary" part of our nervous systems, which is not normally under the control of our conscious minds. However, it does seem to be influenced in some way by the subconscious mind. And it appears that hypnotherapy can improve the way the subconscious mind interacts with and regulates the gut.
Put simply, you could say that hypnotherapy restores the ability of the brain to control the activity of the intestine.
IBS is not strictly a disease, instead it is a collection of symptoms that doctors call "a syndrome". If, through hypnotherapy, you can stop the symptoms then you have effectively stopped the IBS.
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contessaxd
May 29, 2008 @ 5:24 am | delete
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As a sufferer of IBS myself, it's definately something I'll be looking in to.
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DavidDove
Apr 12, 2008 @ 2:10 am | delete
- Lovely lens, thank you. IBS needs specialist attention, nice to know that you are there.
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