Hypnosis to alleviate perioperative anxiety and stress: a journey to challenge ideas. Patricia A.Fern
Perioperative Practice Jan 2008 Vol 18; Issue 1; ISSN 1467 -1026
NEWS RELEASE 2008
Patients at the Disablement Services Centre (DSC) at Royal Preston Hospital now have access to their own counsellor thanks to the launch of a psychology service at the centre.
The service has been set up to offer support and advice to patients at the DSC, which provides services for people of all ages with long-term mobility problems, including amputees.
Counselling Psychologist Candy Bamford has been appointed to run the service, which offers a wide range of different techniques to help patients, including:
Rory Davies, Centre Manager for the DSC, said: “We are delighted to have launched this service, which is already proving a big hit with patients. Many of our patients come to us having suffered traumatic accidents and therefore need specialist support in helping them to adjust.
“Candy has a wealth of experience in treating patients with long-term mobility problems and is at the forefront of her field and so is making a big difference to the psychological well-being of our patients. We are thrilled to have her on board.”
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BRITISH SOCIETY OF CLINICAL AND ACADEMIC HYPNOSIS
PRESS RELEASE - 19/5/08
Hypnosis has a growing reputation and an increasing evidence base as an effective adjunct in the treatment of many conditions as well as acute and chronic pain. It is increasingly being used by practising doctors, dentists, nurses, psychologists and other health professionals as part of their mainstream clinical practice, the BSCAH conference, held at Stanstead, heard last weekend.
Amongst the papers presented were:
1. Applications and evidence for the use of hypnosis in chronic pain conditions such as back problems, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and others given by Dr David Rogerson. Consultant in Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Clinical Hypnosis. Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
2. The use of hypnosis in acute pain situations such as obstetrics and dentistry given by Diana Tibble, a practising Midwife and Counsellor and Cath Potter a Dentist and Senior Teaching Fellow in Behavioural Sciences at Leeds University.
3. The evidence of highly successful outcomes using hypnosis in the treatment of phantom limb pain by Counselling Psychologist Candy Bamford who works at Preston Limb Centre.
4. The highly successful results of over 200 patients treated under a PCT pilot from a pain clinic and from Primary Care at Chelmsford Hypnotherapy Clinic by Dr Les Brann (General Practitioner) and his team. Cases included IBS, migraine and fibromyalgia as well as other psychosomatic and chronic pain conditions.
5. The applications and evidence base for the use of hypnosis to treat acute, chronic and emotional pain in cancer and palliative care for both children and adults by Dr Christina Liossi, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at Southampton University.
6. Dr Mike Gow, a dentist from Scotland, presented and discussed a case, recently featured on a programme on hypnosis on BBC television with Professor Kathy Sykes, in which dental extraction and implants were done using hypnosis as the sole anaesthetic agent.
Various scientific papers were also presented showing that there appear to be different brain changes seen on fMRI scanning between people merely ‘imagining’ and those imagining under hypnosis, that there appears to be a difference when someone is in the hypnotic state, resting and not partaking in any task compared to someone just resting and that highly hypnotisable people may have an increase in grey matter compared with ‘lows’ in the frontal regions of their brains.