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Researchers from Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester have found that hyp­no­therapy can be used to effectively treat irritable bowel syndrome
(IBS) in 70 per cent of cases.

Irritable bowel syndrome is a func­tional bowel disorder, which causes abdominal pain, and in some cases, fever, diarrhoea, bloating, con­stipation and nausea. It is a common ailment, which is thought to affect one in three people at some point in their lives.

The causes of irritable bowel syndrome are unknown, par­tic­ularly as IBS suf­ferers show no physical abnor­malities in the bowel. Because of this, many spe­cialists believe that stress is a major factor in causing this painful bowel disorder.

Cur­rently, a hyp­no­therapist at the Manchester hospital is treating more than 60 irritable bowel syndrome suf­ferers every week. Patients are coming from loc­ations throughout the country to experience this cutting-​​edge course of 12 hyp­no­therapy treatments, which means the hospital now has an 18-​​month waiting list.

Pamela Cruick­shanks, who is one of Wythenshawe Hospital’s three clinical hyp­no­ther­apists, explains how the treatment works. She said: “We provide patients with 12 sessions of ‘gut-​​directed hyp­no­therapy’, which teach patients to take control over their bowel. Due to the success of this treatment, patients are coming from all over the country to access our services, and hypnosis is now con­sidered to be the treatment of choice for moderate to severe IBS.”

One irritable bowel syndrome sufferer from Manchester, Claire Brunton, suffered from painful cramps and other symptoms of the bowel disorder so badly that she stopped wanting to eat, which left her on the verge of anorexia. She also started to suffer from ter­rifying panic attacks because she was worrying so much about getting ill.

However, as a result of Wythenshawe hospital’s revolu­tionary hyp­no­therapy pro­gramme, she has learnt some great tech­niques to stop her panic attacks, control her symptoms and help to cope with the pain. While her illness had once held her back in life, the hyp­no­therapy treatments have helped her to cope with the stress of her final uni­versity exams, as well as giving her enough con­fidence to enter the world of work and begin a new job as a recruitment consultant.

Claire was quick to praise Wythenshawe Hospital’s hyp­no­therapy treatment for IBS, she said: “Hyp­no­therapy is a very strange thing to try to describe, your therapist helps you to relax slowly but you are awake and con­scious throughout — it feels like the last few moments before you go to sleep when you still know what is hap­pening around you.”

Before embarking on this treatment, Claire had tried a number of other IBS therapies to no avail. She explained: “IBS was taking over my life. I had started to worry I would not be able to hold down a job and I didn’t want to eat because I felt like everything I ate made me sick, so I’d tried all kinds of herbal remedies and acu­puncture before the hypnotherapy.”

As well as having hyp­no­therapy, Claire was also given a number of blood tests at the hospital that showed she was allergic to dairy and wheat products. She now avoids these foods and finds that her symptoms have eased a great deal.

Source:
Manchester Evening News

This article was ori­ginally pub­lished on www.HypnotherapyClinic.info by Con­sultant Clinical Hyp­no­therapist & Pys­cho­therapist Noel Bradford –

As a pro­fes­sional therapist Noel help people with everything that you would expect including giving up smoking, con­trolling their weight, dealing with fears and phobias. However his services go far beyond this and encompass things that affect everyone at some time in their life, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and low self esteem.

He  also has detailed spe­cialist training in several areas including but not limitted to Irrittable Bowel Syndrome and Pyscho­sexual matters that affect men such as Errectile Dys­function and Pre­mature Ejac­u­lation as well as those affecting women such as Hyper Desire Disorder, Vaginisums, and Dys­pareunia.

Ori­ginally posted 2010-​​03-​​08 12:38:00.