Hypnotherapy helps fight Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Hypnotherapy has proven to help people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome claims leading Irritable Bowel Syndrome expert Claire Hegarty. Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which has been a mystery for many years with patients trying to find new ways to help with their pain and suffering that Irritable Bowel Syndrome brings, will be relived at the news that Hypnotherapy can help them.
According to research Irritable Bowel Syndrome affects one third of the population in the UK making it a serious health problem that needs to be tackled. One in ten people have symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which is also known as IBS for short, so bad that they need to seek medical help.
Wythenshawe Hospital was the first hospital to start using Hypnotherapy to tackle IBS and now people who suffer from IBS are turning their back on the long waiting list and seeking help outside the NHS from Irritable Bowel Syndrome experts who can offer them help with Hypnotherapy.
Claire Hegarty who is a Irritable Bowel Syndrome expert and uses Hypnotherapy to help people who suffer from the illness said: “Hypnotherapy is a great tool to help people who suffer from IBS, by using Hypnotherapy we can help tackle this serious health problem that affects so many people in the UK.”
Irritable Bowel Syndrome can affect people of any age although according to research it is more commonly amongst men and women between the ages of 15 and 40.
IBS can cause people to suffer with so much pain that they do not wish to eat or do not eat properly. A woman who was in the news recently that suffers from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and found the pain unbearable and therefore refused to eat anything and became more and more ill due to not eating and was on the verge of Anorexia and also suffered panic attacks.
This painful illness can be characterised by a collection of symptoms affecting the small or large bowel, which can cause pain and discomfort to sufferers and if untreated can become unbearable. Normally Irritable Bowel Syndrome sufferers have no physical abnormalities in the bowel, and has been suggested that there is a strong link between stress and IBS. With Irritable Bowel Syndrome the bowel becomes super sensitive and responds with violent contractions or spasms to stimuli such as stress or simply eating a meal.
According to professional experts who have studied Irritable Bowel Syndrome for many years, complimentary health does help people who suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Expert Claire Hegarty as seen on TV who is offering free consultations to Irritable Bowel Syndrome sufferers has said that Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be helped with complimentary health using techniques such as hypnotherapy. Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a condition that causes re-occurring pain or discomfort in the abdomen causing people who suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome discomfort but by using Hypnotherapy and Irritable Bowel Syndrome therapy we can work with the client to make life much more comfortable.
Research that was done with Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester found that hypnotherapy could be used to effectively treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in 70 per cent of cases.
Hypnotherapy has become a natural way of dealing with Irritable Bowel Syndrome like acupuncture, which has become very popular for different illnesses and health problems, it was until a few years ago not properly understood how acupuncture can help but now thousands and thousands of people go for acupuncture treatment and this is happening with Hypnotherapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. More and more people are now becoming familiar that Hypnotherapy can help with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and this is why more and more doctors and information their patients that they can see a complimentary health expert who can help them with IBS.
Hypnotherapy allows a person to tap into a special mental state (the subconscious level of their mind), allowing them to alter the way in which they consciously perceive their health problems, and encourages them to respond to these problems in new ways.
How? While they are in this special mental state, the person is given verbal suggestions or provided imagery to assist them in finding relief from their symptoms. The stimulation that the person under hypnosis receives from words and images has a significant impact on the way they function mentally and physically.
For instance, imagery used during hypnotherapy for IBS patients would be images that encourage healing. Depending on what the image is, the patient may imagine their intestines expanding and relaxing to let fluids flow through. Hence, this imagery is meant to help the patient with their constipation problem.
Why is hypnotherapy an effective IBS treatment?
The reason is because hypnosis is a therapy that can help both the body and the mind. Think of hypnosis as a treatment that helps a person put mind over matter. In other words, it’s a way to use the mind to help heal physical ailments. Furthermore, many researchers believe IBS is a primary disorder of the brain/gut axis.
The what? The brain/gut axis is the term given to the important relationship between the events that have an affect on the way the central nervous system (brain) functions, and how this resulting function affects the way the intestines function through the intestinal specialized enteric nervous system. Essentially, the mind and body are connected. The state of one’s mind can have positive or negative affects on the way the body functions.
For many IBS sufferers, one of the best benefits of hypnotherapy are its ability to reduce the hold stress has on them. Most people with IBS are plagued by negative emotions such as anxiety, tension, and depression, all symptoms of stress that are caused by having to live with an incurable condition. Stress can cause chemical imbalances within the brain that can undermine the immune system and cause an IBS flare up. Hypnosis can decrease the stress one feels about IBS and help a person realize and explore new thoughts and strategies about how to cope with the illness. Hypnotherapy turns the negative to positive.
Over the course of 15 years, numerous studies have been conducted on the effects of hypnotherapy on people with IBS. The results have been very successful. In fact, hypnotherapy regularly generates long-term positive results in more than 80% of those who are treated with it.
As an additional bonus, hypnotherapy is safe for all ages, and works on 90% of the population. Keep in mind, that like most types of natural remedy for IBS, hypnotherapy usually requires more than one session to be successful and maintain its effectiveness.
