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Understanding Pain:
Pain follows a pathway from the injury or illness to your brain.
The pain signals pass through gateways in the spinal cord.
So when you stub your toe, the pain message goes up the spinal cord and into your brain,
where it is evaluated and reacts immediately. That's the point when you shout 'ouch'.
This type of pain is acute and is normally temporary and is designed to get your attention.
There are many conditions that create pain and sometimes this can lead to chronic pain.
Chronic pain is usually longer term and more complex. Reactions to chronic pain can be affected by your previous
associations with pain, how family members have reacted to pain and if you are stressed and worried.
If you feel despairing or are not coping too well with the pain, the pathways to the brain allow more pain messages
to go through.
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Regain control
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In some cases be completely free from pain
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Direct attention away from the pain
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Directly focus on the pain and reduce it to a manageable level so that you can have a good quality of life, even with a chronic condition
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Proprietor Debbie Taylor-Payne has been trained by Dr John Butler from the Hypnotherapy Training Institute of Britain in Medical Hypnosis and learnt advanced techniques in pain management. Dr John Butler is an expert in using hypnosis for surgery.
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If you have concerns about some medical procedures we can help you to overcome this, so that your surgery is stress free and help to speed up your healing and recovery.
You can be taught self-hypnosis to minimise fear and discomfort during some of the following:
- Intravenous therapy
- Lumbar punctures
- Blood tests
- Dressing changes
- Removing stitches
The aim is to help you to reduce fear, discomfort, pain, infection and to promote healing.
Although we do not offer hypnosis for surgery we can recommend suitably qualified and experienced professionals who do.
In Liege hospital in Belgium, anaesthetists use a combination of hypnosis and much reduced amounts of anaesthetic to carry out all their operations. To date they have carried out approximately 5,000 operations using what they call 'hypnosedation'.
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