Pain Relief
I am so glad you are here. Hypnosis is an amazing tool for relieving or vanquishing pain. Whether you have an old painful injury or pain that came out of nowhere, We can help you learn to live much more comfortably that you are now. Don’t worry, the only side effects are relaxation and feeling wonderful.
pain control and relief
Hypnosis is an awesome tool for controlling or relieving pain. Depending on the kind of pain you are experiencing and why you are experiencing it, we can help you either calm it down or get rid of it completely. Not only will we use techniques in the office to help increase your comfort, but we will teach you techniques you can use anywhere to help control and alleviate pain anytime you need.
Your mind and more importantly your subconscious mind, controls so many things that you pay no attention to. It controls your heart beat, your breathing, the rate at which your hair grows and yes, it controls what feelings you notice and what you don’t.
Take a moment to notice what your shoes or socks feel like. Or perhaps the shirt on your back, or the temperature of the air around you. These are things you feel all the time but you don’t pay attention to them. That same part of your mind that chooses to ignore the feeling of your socks, and the chair and the air can be used to help you ignore that nagging pain that has bothered you for so long.
What causes pain
We have nerve endings all over our bodies. They help us feel all sorts of things to help us get through daily life. For example, they help us pick up an egg without crushing it. The nerve endings go to our spinal cord, which goes to our brain and sends the kinesthetic signals. When we injure ourselves, those signals go to the brain as well and our brain lets us know we need to stop now by causing pain.
All of this happens so quickly, we often react before we even feel the pain. Have you ever touched a hot pan then pulled your hand away, only to feel the pain a few second later? That is your subconscious mind reacting before you even feel the signals of the mistake you had made.
acute vs. chronic
Acute pain is pain that you have you have experienced suddenly. If you have ever scraped your knee, broken a bone or hit your thumb with a hammer you have experienced acute pain. This is generally not what we work with as your body knows how to heal and the pain will eventually go away.
Let’s say that bone you broke was in your ankle. It has long healed, but you still experience pain. Perhaps you feel it when you stand to long or when its cold or maybe all the time. Now we move into the realm of chronic pain. More examples of chronic pain would be arthritis or fibromyalgia, which are not necessarily caused by a single event.
consult with your doctor
Because pain does usually have a purpose, and that purpose is generally to keep you from further harm, we do recommend you consult your doctor prior to having us help you relieve your pain. The reason for this is we do not want to help your pain go away, and you to re-injure yourself.
Most of the time, pain relief is is a good thing. Even if you have acute pain from an injury, and just want to relieve some of it during recovery, it can be extremely helpful. We just want to make sure we are looking out for your best interests.
Plus, if your doctor is willing to write you a referral we will discount your services by 20%.
Just a reminder, we do not diagnose, treat, prescribe for or cure diseases or injuries.
emotional pain
Although emotional pain does not start in the same place, it still resides in your mind. The techniques for emotional pain are not exactly the same, but are very similar to those for physical pain.
If you are suffering from grief, loss or sadness surrounding an event a loved one, we can help you ease those feelings. Periods of mourning are healthy and they are something we experience from time to time. Long term suffering is not.
Again, we do recommend you consult your doctor or psychiatrist/counselor prior to taking advantage of this service, especially if you are taking medication already for this reason.
What does the research say?
Hypnosis controls pain! Hypnosis has direct effects on many suprasinal sites involved in the experience of pain.
Jensen, M. P. (2009). Hypnosis for chronic pain management: A new hope. Pain, 146(3), 235-237. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2009.06.027
As an anesthesia: Our case confirms the efficacy of hypnosis and demonstrates that it may be valuable as a sole anaesthetic method in selected cases. Hypnosis can prevent pain perception and surgical stress as a whole, comparing well with anaesthetic drugs.
Facco, E., Pasquali, S., Zanette, G., & Casiglia, E. (2013). Hypnosis as sole anaesthesia for skin 13 tumour removal in a patient with multiple chemical sensitivity. Anaesthesia, 68(9), 961-965. doi:10.1111/anae.1225
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 hypnoanalgesic 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:10.1080/00207140008410045
Painful HIV distal sensory polyneuropathy (HIV-DSP): Brief hypnosis interventions have promise as a useful and well-tolerated tool for managing painful HIV-DSP meriting further investigation.
Dorfman, D., George, M. C., Schnur, J., Simpson, D. M., Davidson, G., & Montgomery, G. (2013). Hypnosis for Treatment of HIV Neuropathic Pain: A Preliminary Report. Pain Medicine, 14(7), 1048-1056. doi:10.1111/pme.12074
Dental pain: Self-hypnosis can be used in clinical practice as an adjunct to the gold standard of local anesthesia for pain management, as well as an alternative in individual cases.
Wolf, T. G., Wolf, D., Below, D., D’Hoedt, B., Willershausen, B., & Daubländer, M. (2016). Effectiveness of Self-Hypnosis on the Relief of Experimental Dental Pain: A Randomized Trial. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 64(2), 187-199. doi:10.1080/00207144.2016.113158
The case examples demonstrate how the focused suggestion with somatic anchoring technique is used with both acute and chronic pain conditions when use of long-term medication has been relatively ineffective.
Donatone, B. (2013). Focused Suggestion With Somatic Anchoring Technique: Rapid Self- Hypnosis for Pain Management. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 55(4), 325-342. doi:10.1080/00029157.2012.688896