Please find below a section from a brilliant student's workbook which cites an interesting clinical study you might be interested in.
Student Example Answer:
Hypnotherapy for the Management of Chronic Pain
Fibromyalgia
In a controlled study, Haanen et al. (1991) randomly assigned 40 patients with fibromyalgia to groups that received either eight 1-hour sessions of hypnotherapy with a self-hypnosis home-practice tape over a 3-month period, or physical therapy (that included 12 to 24 hours of massage and muscle relaxation training) for 3 months. Outcome was assessed pre- and post treatment and at 3-month follow-up. The hypnosis intervention included an arm-levitation induction and suggestions for ego strengthening, relaxation, improved sleep, and “control of muscle pain.” Compared with patients in the physical therapy group, the patients who received hypnosis showed significantly better outcomes on measures of muscle pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, distress, and patient overall assessment of outcome. These differences were maintained at the 3-month follow-up assessment and the average percent decrease in pain among patients who received hypnosis (35%) was clinically significant, whereas the percent decrease in the patients who received physical therapy was marginal (2%).
Controlled trial of hypnotherapy in the treatment of refractory fibromyalgia.
Haanen HC, Hoenderdos HT, van Romunde LK, Hop WC, Mallee C, Terwiel JP, Hekster GB J Rheumatol. 1991 Jan; 18(1):72-5.
Int J Clin Exp Hypn. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2009 Sep 25.
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The above abstract includes the statistical data of how many patients were selected for the trial, the period of the experiment and follow-up assessments as well as a basic report on the findings, the two basic methods of treatment are also reported.
A random number of subjects from a selected pool of previously diagnosed Fibromyalgia sufferers were given hypnosis and hypnotic recordings to listen to over a 3-month period whilst another group of subjects were given massage and muscle relaxation training.
At the end of the initial experiment all the subjects were again measured for any changes/improvements in their symptoms and measured again after a 3-month period to monitor how these changes/improvements had lasted.
The results showed that hypnosis and hypnotic recordings were significantly more effective in pain management and managing the other symptoms of Fibromyalgia than simple massage and muscle relaxation.
The advantages of these experiments is that the subjects all have a known medical condition which has measurable symptoms and as such can provide a repeatable set of results. This experiment has been repeated by several different research facilities utilising other forms of treatment from pharmaceuticals to massage etc. verses hypnosis as well as hypnosis in conjunction with these traditional treatments and they have all found hypnosis improves the subject’s condition.
Q28. Correct. You have demonstrated your ability to locate hypnotherapy research and to comment and evaluate on this particular subject of fibromyalgia treatment with good citations throughout.
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