Pain is equivalent to the history of humankind. There is no person who does not complain of pain at some point in his life and does not consult a physician. Pain can be handled in two ways: short-term (acute) and long-term (chronic). Acute pain often works as a warning system. Pain warns you that there is a disorder somewhere in your body, that it requires medical attention, and that the wound needs to heal to prevent further damage to this damaged area. Acute pain usually begins with a blow or illness. For example; The body becomes vulnerable to painful stimuli due to reasons such as a burn, fracture, or kidney stone. When this pain stimulus reaches the brain, it perceives pain. Acute pain is an alarm. In other words, it appears as an important alarm that plays a role in the patient's consultation with a physician.
Chronic pain is a disease, but also a social problem. It is thought that seven hundred million working days and sixty billion dollars of damage occur every year. Chronic pain is not a simple symptom but a disease in itself. Pain is the main reason that causes the patient to consult a physician in many back pains, headaches and other long-term pains.
As a result of the developments in pain in medicine, pain has now become the subject of a new branch of science, Algology. Algology Departments and laboratories established in many countries of the world not only continue research on pain, but also try to relieve the pain of patients. Of course, pain is not the subject of a single branch of medicine. Many branches of medicine such as neurology, physical therapy, brain surgery, rheumatology and psychology also deal with pain. Accepting chronic pain as a disease brings with it the right to treatment. In this sense, relieving pain is a human right.
Today, the accumulated knowledge of medicine makes it possible to relieve chronic pain disease by 90%. However, since this knowledge cannot be sufficiently disseminated to physicians and patients do not sufficiently request or use this right, only 30% of patients with chronic pain can be treated.
Pain. In addition to feelings of discomfort It also includes mental and emotional reactions. Negative thoughts about pain and the subsequent increase in anxiety and tension cause the discomfort to be felt more deeply. For this reason, in hypnotherapy, your negative thoughts are worked on. Instead of commenting on how bad the pain is, painlessness can be achieved with breathing exercises and hypnotic suggestions. In addition, with hypnotherapy, possible secondary gains (benefits in the form of drawing attention to the pain, gaining attention) are realized and cleared.
There are many methods of treating pain with hypnotherapy. These include reducing pain with imagination, getting away from pain (a hypnotic journey to a favorite place), and transferring pain (especially in migraine treatment, the headache is transferred to the patient's hand and from there to the air).
HYPNOSIS AND SURGERY
Some people are allergic to anesthesia with chemical substances, or some do not want to receive anesthesia with chemical drugs. Hypnosis can be used at many stages during surgery. It can reduce stress and anxiety before surgery. It can provide partial or complete anesthesia (hypnoanesthesia) during surgery and eliminate pain after surgery, allowing you to recover faster.
Dr., one of the anesthesiologists of Liege Hospital in Belgium. Marie Elisabeth Faymonville frequently uses this method called "hypnotic anesthesia". Experts point out that medical hypnosis is an extremely effective option that can replace general anesthesia when used with local anesthesia and some analgesic drugs. The Liege team has used this method in more than 4800 major and minor surgical procedures to date. The hypnosis anesthesia method is becoming increasingly common in other health institutions. Considering the latest developments in the field of pharmacological anesthesia, it may seem strange that healthcare professionals would even consider hypnotic anesthesia. It is known that patients were anesthetized with hypnosis in hundreds of surgeries in the 19th century. However, with the discovery of numbing chemicals such as ether and chloroform, the hypnosis method was also shelved. He states that there is increasing evidence to the contrary. Numerous studies reveal that anesthetic drugs administered to the body through breathing cause the death of white blood cells. However, Dr. Meiler believes that all these findings need to be examined in more detail before a definitive conclusion can be reached.
First of all, there is less bleeding in patients anesthetized with hypnosis. This makes it easier to perform surgical procedures successfully, especially nose and breast surgeries that cause heavy bleeding. The reason for more bleeding in anesthetized patients is that anesthesia drugs prevent the blood vessels from squeezing. Patients who undergo general anesthesia also need to be connected to a respirator. This creates additional pressure on the patient's chest and causes further bleeding. However, patients anesthetized with hypnosis can breathe much more easily. Patients anesthetized with hypnosis can even assist the surgeon as they are awake throughout the surgery. For example, the patient's contribution is of great importance during the repair of sagging eyelids due to old age or a trauma to the face. Because the adjustments must be perfect in this highly skilled surgery to restore the sense of vision.
Anesthesia with hypnosis also shortens the patient's recovery process. Comparing 40 patients who underwent thyroid (goiter) surgery in 2000, 20 with general anesthesia and 20 with hypnosis, Dr. The Faymonville team points out that those who received general anesthesia regained their health in 36 days, and those who were anesthetized with hypnosis in 10 days.
According to the research in New Scientist, neuroscientists are just beginning to understand how hypnosis reduces the feeling of pain. A group of researchers led by Sebastian Shulz-Stubner of the University of Iowa published a study late last year comparing the tendency for pain to be experienced between hypnotized and non-hypnotized individuals. Researchers who compared the brain activity of subjects exposed to extreme heat using functional magnetic vibration imaging (fMRI) witnessed significant differences between the two groups. Another fMRI experiment showed that the hypnotized brain was able to consciously manipulate the feeling of pain.
So can hypnosis really replace general anesthesia?
Those who are skeptical of this view argue that only a small portion of people are susceptible to hypnosis, so the method cannot be very useful. On the other hand, Dr. Shulz-Stubner claims that this is not the case at all, and that 80% of patients can reach the required level of hypnosis during the surgery. Dr. Faymonville's findings reveal that this practice is much more successful. Feymonville points out that hypnosis was effective in 14 out of 20 patients and says, "Hypnosis is a natural state that everyone can reach if they want."
HYPNOSIS AND CANCER
Hypnotherapy is also effective in the treatment of cancer pain (Domangue and Margolis, 1983). In addition to pain, it can also contribute to healing by relieving stress and anxiety, and by creating a symbol of healing in the subconscious through imagination. Research shows that hypnosis techniques can be used to support pain control in 50 percent of terminal cancer patients (Hilgard and Hilgard, 1975) and 95 percent of dental patients (J. Barber, 1977).
Syrjala, Cummings and Dolandson (1992) showed that hypnosis was more effective than cognitive-behavioral therapy in reducing pain, except when used as a narcotic and against nausea and vomiting, in 67 patients who had undergone bone marrow transplantation. This result shows that hypnosis is a very effective tool in the treatment of nausea and vomiting in many patient populations, including early pregnancy, bulimia, and cancer treatment-induced vomiting (Evans, 1991).
With your healthy cells under hypnosis. After visualizing your cancer patient cells, we work on removing the cancerous cells from our minds.
HYPNOSIS AND RESPONSIVE BOWEL SYNDROME
There are two methods that show that hypnosis is effective in painful, irritable bowel syndrome. There is research. Whorwell, Prior, and Faragher (1984) found that hypnosis reduced subjective pain and abdominal bloating complaints more than adjunctive psychotherapy in 30 patients. The same researchers (Prior, Colgan, & Whorwell, 1990) later found that hypnosis reduced anal sensitivity in 15 patients prone to diarrhea.
HYPNOSIS AND FIBR. OMYALGIA
Compared with physical therapy, hypnosis was effective in reducing pain and improving sleep in 40 fibromalgia patients (Haanen, Hoenderdos, van Romunde et al., 1991). A decrease in the need for medication was observed in 80 percent of patients treated with hypnosis.
The team led by Dr. Stuart Derbyshire from the University of Pittsburgh applied hypnosis to fibromyalgia patients, known as a rheumatic disease that causes severe pain, and created a dial in their heads that shows their pain. He wanted them to dream. While the patients stated that they felt less pain when this imaginary dial was turned, MRI images confirmed that the activity in the region of the brain responsible for pain decreased.
HYPNOSIS AND MIGRAINE
Olness, MacDonald and Uden (1987) stated that hypnosis was superior to propranolol and placebo drug treatment in 28 pediatric migraine patients.
Cedercreutz (1976) treated 100 severe migraine patients with hypnosis. Patients' migraine disorders decreased by 55 percent within 3 months.
Van Dyck, Zitman, Linssen, and Spinhoven, 1991; Spinhoven, Linnsen, van Dyck, and Zitman, 1992; Zitman, van Dyck, Spinhoven, and Linnsen, 1992) demonstrated that hypnosis and self-hypnosis, especially in those with high hypnotizability, reduced tension-related headaches at least as much as self-training and more than control groups.
Hypnosis. More generally, it includes the ability of cognitive flexibility, which allows the person to change psychological, cognitive and psychosocial processes and access different levels of consciousness at his/her own will (Evans 2000, 1991)
Hypnotizability includes the ability to use imagination effectively, sleep, sleep easily It is paralleled by many different measurement systems, such as the ability to fall asleep, experience getting lost in a movie or a novel, being late for meetings, and the ease with which patients recover from psychiatric (and possibly medical) symptoms, even outside treatment situations where hypnosis is used (Evans 1991, 2001).
In many patients suffering from chronic pain, the intensity of the pain is not proportional to the depth of the lesion or wound. Psychological or emotional significance may be the primary determinant of the perceived severity of pain. Count of severe pain
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