Hypno-Works

Hypnotherapy & Pain Reduction Services in South Wales UK

IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME



IBS is not nice.

You can delete this habit from your daily life if you want to.

Sometimes just one session can help you do this.

You don't have to be prisoner of your belief system.

Be brave and change yourself. Don't blame others.

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Evidence that Hypnosis Works

One of many studies on IBS,  using Hypnosis

Hypnotherapy in IBS: A large scale audit of a clinical service with examination of factors influencing responsiveness by
W. Consalkoralle Ph.D., P. Whorwell M.D. F.R.C.P.
Dept. of Medicine, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester.

Objective:An audit of the first 250 unselected IBS patients treated with Hypnotherapy.

Methods:
IBS patients underwent 12 sessions of hypnotherapy over a 3-month period and were required to practice techniques in between sessions. At the beginning and at the end of the course of treatment, patients completed questionnaires to score bowel and extracolonic symptons, quality of life, anxiety and depression.

Results:
Marked improvement was seen in all stmptom measures.  quality of life and anxiety and depression. Hypnotherapy has been shown to be extremely effective with up to 80% of patients showing improvement in symptons and overall wellbeing.

From Medical Hypnotherapy Dr Anna Zohrabian and Dr. Rumi Peynovska- Qualified medical practitioners.  I attended their course in 2004 on IBS


More Research

Research on IBS

  • Whorwell P., Prior A., Faragher E., "Controlled Trial of Hypnotherapy in the Treatment of Severe Refrectory IBS",  The Lancet, 1984, Dec. 1232-1233
  • Vidakovic-VukicM., "Hypnotherapy in the Treatment of IBS: Methods and Results in Amsterdam", Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1888, (Suppl 230), 49-51