Debilitating physical or emotional pain is the most common symptom reported to health care providers. Pain is the driving force of health care services, and lost productivity. It is a significant burden for those individuals who suffer with it, as well as those who support them.
Standard medical treatment for chronic pain is often inadequate, and it is common for frustrated patients to seek costly treatments from multiple healthcare professionals, often without significant relief. This can lead some people to believe they cannot be helped.
However, there is some good news. A growing awareness of the limitations of currently available pain treatments make the use of suggestion-based techniques and self-hypnosis an attractive component of pain treatment.
The empirical support for hypnosis for chronic pain management has flourished over the past two decades. Clinical trials show that suggestion based techniques are effective for reducing chronic pain, although outcomes vary between individuals.
The findings from these clinical trials also show that such treatments have a number of positive effects beyond pain control. Many other treatment outcomes improve too.
Better still you can apply suggestion-based strategies to yourself and get results.