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 PTSD: Abreactive hypnosis emphasized hypnotically activated “reliving” of the trauma experience to physical and psychological exhaustion. In study #1 hypnosis and control group’s reduced PTSD checklist (PCL) scores immediately post treatment (placebo PCL score mean reduction 17. 34 and EST treatment PCL mean reduction 53.11). However, only the hypnosis patients maintained significant treatment effects at follow ups. 

Study #2 used the Davidson Trauma Scale (DTS), Beck Depression II (BDI – II), and Beck Anxiety Scales (BAI). Only the hypnosis group showed significant positive effects from pretreatment to all post treatment measurement periods. M, B. A. (2013). Hypnosis for PTSD: Evidence Based Placebo-Controlled Studies. Journal of Trauma & Treatment, S4. doi:10.4172/2167- 1222.s4-006 exist. 

Pain control: The results also indicated that hypnotic suggestion was equally effective in reducing both clinical and experimental pain. The overall results suggest broader application of hypno analgesic techniques with pain patients. 

Montgomery, G. H., Duhamel, K. N., & Redd, W. H. (2000). A meta-analysis of hypnotically induced analgesia: How effective is hypnosis? International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48(2), 138-153. doi:10.1080/00207140008410045big sale, on-site celebrity, or other event? Be sure to announce it so everybody knows and gets excited about it.      

Results: The authors found that the group receiving hypnosis had a significant drop in pain compared with the control group when measured by the McGill Pain Questionnaire but not when measured by other pain rating scales. Conclusion: The McGill Pain Questionnaire total score reflects multiple pain components, such as its affective component and various qualitative components, and is not merely a measure of pain intensity. Thus, the findings suggest that hypnosis affects multiple pain domains and that measures that assess these multiple domains may be more sensitive to the effects of hypnotic analgesia treatments. 

Askay, S. W., Patterson, D. R., Jensen, M. P., & Sharar, S. R. (2007). A randomized controlled trial of hypnosis for burn wound care.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The hypnotherapy patients showed a dramatic improvement in all features, the difference between the two groups being highly significant. In the hypnotherapy group no relapses were recorded during the 3-month follow-up period, and no substitution symptoms were observed. 

Whorwell, P., Prior, A., & Faragher, E. (1984). Controlled Trial Of Hypnotherapy In The Treatment Of Severe Refractory Irritable-Bowel Syndrome. The Lancet, 324(8414), 1232-1234. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(84)92793-4

Post-surgical pain relief decreases need for opiates: The results of this retrospective study suggest that self-hypnosis provides an opioid sparing effect for managing moderate-to-severe pediatric postoperative pain after Nuss procedure. 

Mavi, J. (2014). Update of Postoperative Pain Management following Pectus Excavatum Repair. SOJ Anesthesiology & Pain Management, 1(1). doi:10.15226/2374-684x/1/1/00106 

Knee surgery: Significantly greater knee strength and significantly less re injury anxiety and pain for treatment group participants at 24 weeks post surgery than for placebo and control group participants. Conclusions: Relaxation and imagery may be beneficial to ACL rehabilitation, thus warranting further research on mechanisms of obtained effects

 Cupal, D. D., & Brewer, B. W. (2001). Effects of relaxation and guided imagery on knee strength, reinjury anxiety, and pain following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Rehabilitation Psychology, 46(1), 28-43. doi:10.103 

Osteoarthritis pain and mobility: The treatment group reported a significant reduction in pain and mobility difficulties at week 12 compared to the control group. Baird, C. L., & Sands, L. (2004). A pilot study of the effectiveness of guided imagery with progressive muscle relaxation to reduce chronic pain and mobility difficulties of osteoarthritis. 

Pain Management Nursing, 5(3), 97-104. doi:10.1016/j.pmn.2004.01.003 

Sports performance: The results indicated that all five participants in- creased both their mean basketball three-point shooting performance and their mean flow scores from baseline to intervention. 

Pates, J., Cummings, A., & Maynard, I. (2002). The Effects of Hypnosis on Flow States and Three-Point Shooting Performance in Basketball Players. The Sport Psychologist, 16(1), 34-47.

Headaches reduced in frequency and intensity through self-hypnosis: Data were available for 144 patients in this patient self-selected and uncontrolled observation. Compared with self-reports before learning self-hypnosis, children and youths who learned self-hypnosis for recurrent headaches reported reduction in frequency of headache from an average of 4.5 per week to 1.4 per week (P < .01), reduction in intensity (on a self-rating scale of 0 to 12) from an average of 10.3 to 4.7, P < .01, and reduction in average duration from 23.6 hours to 3.0 hours, (P < .01). There were no adverse side effects of self-hypnosis.

Kohen, D. P., & Zajac, R. (2007). Self-Hypnosis Training for Headaches in Children and Adolescents. The Journal of Pediatrics, 150(6), 635-639. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2007.02.014

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Hypnosis more effective in treating headache pain: The objective of the current study was to conduct a meta-analysis to assess the efficacy of hypnosis for managing chronic pain. When compared with standard care, hypnosis provided moderate treatment  25 benefit. Hypnosis also showed a moderate superior effect as compared to other psychological interventions for a non headache group. The results suggest that hypnosis is efficacious for managing chronic pain. 

A Meta-Analysis of Hypnosis for Chronic Pain Problems: A Comparison Between Hypnosis, Standard Care, and Other Psychological Interventions Tomonori Adachi, Haruo Fujino, Aya Nakae, Takashi Mashimo, and Jun Sasaki1 International Journal Of Clinical And Experimental Hypnosis Vol. 62 , Iss. 1,2014

Are your Post-stroke: Even some serious medical cases such as cancer and heart attacks, hypnotherapy accelerate recovery of a patient. It is very possible because directed hypnotherapy to boost the immune system and reprogram individual attitude towards her illness.  26 In hypnotherapy there is a progressive relaxation technique, relaxation technique that is done by focusing on the contraction and relaxation of the muscles of the body. So the therapy for post-stroke patients using hypnotherapy, especially with the use of progressive relaxation techniques, can help reduce muscle tension in patients with post-stroke. 

RAMA, Tamyis Ade; NAPRI, Muhammad. Hypnotherapy to Reduce Post-Stroke Muscle Tension in Indonesia. Scientific Journal of PPI - UKM, [S.l.], v raving about you on social media? Share their great stories to help turn potential customers into loyal ones.

Dental hypnosis: Of the subjects who underwent hypnosis, only two subjects (8.3%) reported pain after induction of hypnosis. In the local anaesthetic group, 8 subjects (33.3%) reported pain. There was a significant difference between the two groups. The results of the study showed that patients in the hypnosis group had less pain during the first few hours post-operatively. Anxiety scores in the two groups were very close to each other and no statistically significant differences were observed in general and when each person was compared with himself or herself. Pain intensity in the two groups at 5- and 12-h post-operatively exhibited significant differences. In the hypnosis group, 10 patients (41.7%) took analgesic medication; in the local anaesthesia group, 22 patients (91.7%) took the analgesic medication (P = 0.0001). In other words, patients reported less pain when they were under hypnosis. 

28 Abdeshahi, S. K., Hashemipour, M. A., Mesgarzadeh, V., Payam, A. S., & Monfared, A. H. (2013). Effect of hypnosis on induction of local anaesthesia, pain perception, control of haemorrhage and anxiety during extraction of third molars: A case–control study. Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, 41(4), 310-315. doi:10.1016/j.jcms.2012.10.009

Fibromyalgia: The analyses indicated that: 1) patients with FM who received multicomponent CBT alone or multicomponent CBT with hypnosis showed greater improvements than patients who received only standard care; and 2) adding hypnosis enhanced the effectiveness of multicomponent CBT. This study presents new evidence about the efficacy of multicomponent CBT for FM and about the additional effects of hypnosis as a complement to CBT. 

Castel, A., Cascón, R., Padrol, A., Sala, J., & Rull, M. (2012). Multicomponent Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy With Hypnosis for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia: Long-Term Outcome. The Journal of Pain, 13(3), 255-265. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2011.

PTSD: New uses of hypnosis in the psychotherapy of PTSD victims involve coupling access to the dissociated traumatic memories with positive restructuring of those memories. Hypnosis can be used to help patients face and bear a traumatic experience by embedding it in a new context, acknowledging helplessness during the event, and yet linking that experience with remoralizing memories such as efforts at self-protection, shared affection with friends who were killed, or the ability to control the environment at other times. In this way, hypnosis can be used to provide controlled access to memories that are then placed into a broader perspective. 

Spiegel, D. (n.d.). Hypnosis in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Casebook of Clinical Hypnosis., 99-111. doi:10.1037/11090

Tobacco dependency: Of 43 consecutive patients undergoing this treatment protocol, 39 reported remaining abstinent at follow-up (6 months to 3 years posttreatment). Barber, J. (2001). Freedom from smoking: Integrating hypnotic methods and rapid smoking to facilitate smoking cessation. 

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 49(3), 257-266. doi:10.1080/00207140108410075 your customers raving about you on social media? Share their great stories to help turn potential customers into loyal ones.

Aversion and hypnosis combined. Smoking cessation: After the 2-wk. program, 92% or 86 of the men and 90% or 84 of the women reported abstinence, and at 3-mo. follow-up, 86% or 80 of the men and 87% or 81 of the women reported continued abstinence. 

Johnson, D. L., & Karkut, R. T. (1994). Performance By Gender In A Stop-Smoking Program Combining Hypnosis And Aversion. Psychological Reports, 75(2), 851-857.

ADHD: Better long-term outcome for hypnotherapy. Independent evaluators’ ratings qualitatively supported the results. Hypnotherapy seems to be a usable method for treating ADHD in adults. BETTER LONG-TERM OUTCOME FOR HYPNOTHERAPY THAN FOR CBT IN ADULTS WITH ADHD: RESULTS OF A SIX-MONTH FOLLOW-UP. 

SEPPO HILTUNEN , MAARIT VIRTA, ANITA SALAKARI, MERVI ANTILA, ESA CHYDENIU, MARKUS KASKI, RISTO VATAJA, MATTI IIVANAINEN, MARKKU PARTINEN CONTEMPORARY HYPNOSIS AND INTEGRATIVE THERAPY 30(3): 118–134 (2014) ADHD: 

This study indicates that hypnotic suggestions have an effect on reaction times in the sustained attention task both in adult ADHD patients and control subjects. 

Virta, M., Hiltunen, S., Mattsson, M., & Kallio, S. (2015). The Impact of Hypnotic Suggestions on Reaction Times in Continuous Performance Test in Adults with ADHD and Healthy Controls. Plos One, 10(5). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126497 

PTSD Insomnia: There was a significant main effect of the hypnotherapy treatment with PTSD symptoms as measured by the Posttraumatic Disorder Scale. This effect was preserved at follow-up 1 month later. Additional benefits for the hypnotherapy group were  32 decreases in intrusion and avoidance reactions and improvement in all sleep variables assessed. Hypnotherapy in the Treatment of Chronic Combat-Related PTSD Patients Suffering From Insomnia: A Randomized, Zolpidem-Controlled Clinical Trial 

Eitan G. Abramowitz, Yoram Barak, Irit Ben-Avi, and Haim Y. Knobler International Journal Of Clinical And Experimental Hypnosis Vol. 56 , Iss. 3,2008 a holiday sale or weekly special? Definitely promote it here to get customers excited about getting a sweet deal.

33 Fear of heights: The author, an experienced alpine mountaineer, sustained several traumatic climbing injuries over a two-year period. This article describes her multiple uses of self-hypnosis to deal with several challenges related to her returning to successful mountain climbing. She used selfhypnosis for physical healing and to enhance her motivation to resume climbing. While training for her next expedition, she successfully utilized selfhypnotic techniques to deal with acute stress and later post-traumatic symptoms that had emerged related to her climbing injuries. She describes her use of hypnotic ego-strengthening, mental rehearsal, age progression, and “Inner Strength” as well as active-alert trance states. Her successful summitting of Ecuador's Cotopaxi at 19,380 feet was facilitated by “The HypnoticBelay” which permitted her to secure herself by self-hypnosis in addition to the rope used to secure climbers. In 1994, the author returned to the Cascade Mountains where she had been injured three years earlier and reached the summit of Mount Shuksan. This time she was secured by “The Hypnotic Belay”. 

The Hypnotic Belay in Alpine Mountaineering: The Use of Self-Hypnosis for the Resolution of Sports Injuries and for Performance Enhancement Priscilla A. Morton ACSW, BCD American Journal Of Clinical Hypnosis Vol. 46 , Iss. 1,2003 M

Medical procedure: Hypnosis facilitated an adequate endoscopy intervention without any discomfort in 85% of the cases examined. Avoidance of anaesthesia reduces risk to the patient. Hence, hypnosis for gastrointestinal endoscopy appears to provide a promising strategy. 

The Effectiveness of Clinical Hypnosis in the Digestive Endoscopy: A Multiple Case Report. Luis Domínguez-Ortega and Sarbelio RodríguezMuñoz. American Journal Of Clinical Hypnosis Vol. 53 , Iss. 2,2010

Academic performance: The two hypnotic training programs had a significant effect on the academic achievement of the participants, which was not found in the control groups. The Effect of Hypnotic Training Programs on the Academic Performance of Students. 

H. M. De Vos and . A. Louw. American Journal Of Clinical Hypnosis Vol. 49 , Iss. 2,2006

Athletes: The 14 athletes participating imaged each situation in and out of hypnosis—half of the time the imagery in hypnosis came first and half after. The participants reported that the imagery under hypnosis was more intense for each dimension and more intense for each situation. Whether the imagery was done under hypnosis first or after was not significant. The findings suggest that hypnosis substantially enhances imagery intensity and effectiveness. 

37 Liggett, D. R. (2000). Enhancing Imagery through Hypnosis: A Performance Aid for Athletes. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 43(2), 149-157. doi:10.1080/00029157.2000.1040426

Pregnancy nausea: Persistent nausea of pregnancy is often caused by some unresolved emotional or psychological issue that can be rapidly resolved through hypnosis. Four cases of women who were nauseated throughout their pregnancy were treated  35 with a brief form of hypnosis that used a psychodynamic investigation of the cause of the problem. David Cheek's ideomotor questioning was used to discover the reason for the disturbance; once uncovered, the solution was obvious and quick. Treating Persistent Nausea of Pregnancy With Hypnosis: 

Four Cases. Antonio Madrid, Richard Giovannoli, and Maureen Wolfe. American Journal Of Clinical Hypnosis Vol. 54 , Iss. 2,2011 Accelerated healing of surgical incisions: 

Increase happiness: Hypnosis is presented as an efficient companion intervention to work on these variables in a creative way and to pave the way to a happy and full life. The following results are presented: (1) hypnosis allows for increased executive attention with control of emotions, (2) focusing on positive imagery contributes to strengthening “happy pathways,” and (3) emotions about the past, present, and future are subject to change. The Use of Hypnosis in Therapy to Increase Happiness. 

Nicole Ruysschaert American Journal Of Clinical Hypnosis Vol. 56 , Iss. 3,2014 Level of hypnotic suggestibility not so important: Although the four patients differed obviously and vastly in hypnotizability, they all benefited from the use of hypnosis. Hypnosis, Hypnotizability and Treatment. Howard Sutcher DDS, MA American Journal Of Clinical Hypnosis Vol. 51 , Iss. 1,2008