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Saturday, January 14, 2017

IBS - A Complementary Medicine Alternative

Hypnotherapy has in fact been proven successful at reducing or even eliminating most Irritable Bowel Syndrome symptoms. This is based on over 15 years of scientific research that has demonstrated hypnosis to be an effective, safe and relatively inexpensive choice as a therapy. 

It has been so overwhelmingly successful in this regard that the chair of the National Women's Health Network in Washington, DC, Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD,  has said that hypnosis should be the treatment of choice for Irritable Bowel Syndrome cases which have not responded to conventional therapy. Since the "conventional therapy" offered to most IBS patients ranges from doing nothing at all to a lifetime prescription of semi-effective anti-spasmodic drugs, this statement is the closest thing to an endorsement that an alternative and complementary therapy can get relief. 

For Irritable Bowel Syndrome, one of hypnotherapy's greatest benefits is its well-established ability to reduce the effects of stress. Your state of mind can have a direct impact on your physical well-being, even when you're in the best of health. If you're struggling with IBS, the tension, anxiety, and depression that comes from living with an incurable illness can actually undermine your immune system and further compromise your health. 

Hypnosis can effectively reduce stress and its negative impact by placing you in a deeply relaxed state, which can effectively promote positive thoughts, develop personal coping strategies, and manage most negative attitudes. 

Irritable Bowel Syndrome in fact is almost uniquely suited to treatment by hypnosis or self-hypnosis, for several reasons. First, as just noted, stress-related attacks can be significantly reduced. Second, one of the most impressive aspects from hypnotherapy, and of tremendous benefit to IBS sufferers, is its well-documented ability to manage virtually all types and degrees of pain. Finally, because most IBS is more of a syndrome, relief and symptom management can be developed. The underlying causes may still be present but if you manage your bodily sensations appropriately with the right messaging, you will be able to have control of the symptoms. This outcome is a definite possibility from hypnotherapy treatments. 

As with other alternative therapies, though there is solid evidence that hypnotherapy can provide lasting health benefits for many patients, there is uncertainty about precisely how and why the treatments work. Most scientists believe that hypnotherapy acts upon the unconscious, and affects the body's regulation of involuntary reactions that are normally beyond a person's control. Hypnosis puts these autonomic responses under the patient's power. Happily, treatment focuses in on gut-specific imagery and there are no risks or side effects. 

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