Pain Research and Hypnosis

I found this abstract from a research paper on pain and hypnosis and thought it may be of interest to people who are in pain and finding it difficult to find ways to manage it.

Research around the clinical utility of hypnosis for controlling pain was undertaken by Patterson, David R.; Everett, John J.; Burns, G. Leonard; Marvin, Janet A in 1992.  They studied the levels of pain of patients being treated with burn wounds.   30 hospitalized burn patients and their nurses submitted visual analog scales (VASs) for pain during 2 consecutive daily wound debridements. On the 1st day, patients and nurses submitted baseline VAS ratings. Before the next day's wound debridement, the patients received hypnosis, attention and information, or no treatment. Only hypnotized patients reported significant pain reductions relative to pretreatment baseline. This result was corroborated by nurse VAS ratings. Findings indicate that hypnosis is a viable adjunct treatment for burn pain.

Hypnosis for the treatment of burn pain.

Patterson, David R.; Everett, John J.; Burns, G. Leonard; Marvin, Janet A.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol 60(5), Oct 1992, 713-717. 

Hynotherapy in Brisbane

There are a number of people providing hypnotherapy in Brisbane, but how can you tell if they are any good?

The first thing to look at is their website to see what qualifications and registrations they hold.  Most trained and qualified hypnotherapists belong to an association.  Each of these associations requires their members to have completed an approved training program and to have undertaken a number of years of supervised practise before being allowed full Professional Clinical membership.

The associations themselves will also have their own website. You can also check up on them.  They usually have a list of members and the level of their membership.

If you are having trouble locating members, please let me know and I'll try and help.