Study: Hypnosis Can Relieve Symptoms in Children with Respiratory Diseases

Hypnosis could help children with emotional breathing problems, article in the Examiner dated Feb 14, 2010

This same study was also the subject of an article in the South Asia Mail, dated feb 13, 2010:
Hypnosis can ease symptoms of respiratory diseases among kids

An excerpt from the South Asia Mail article:

Ran D. Anbar, professor of paediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University, New York, recommends hypnosis as a treatment option when a child's respiratory symptoms appear to have a psychological component.

Anbar points to symptoms like difficulty in breathing, disruptive cough, hyperventilation, noise on inhaling such as a gasp or squeak, and difficulty swallowing despite normal lung function as possible indications for the use of hypnosis to supplement medical therapy.

The study was published in the journal "Pediatric Asthma, Allergy & Immunology (PAAI)," which is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that provides advances in our understanding of pulmonary, allergic, and immunologic diseases of children. The journal article is available here (click on the link titled, "Hypnosis Can Relieve Symptoms in Children with Respiratory Diseases" to view the PDF.)

The summary conclusion of the article reads, "Clinical hypnosis is an efficient and effective tool for addressing the mind/body connection for children with respiratory disorders." The paper includes information about hypnosis and hypnosis training for health care workers, including an explanation of how untrained health care workers can easily make mistakes in the use of medical hypnosis.

I know that many of the honored hypnotherapists in history that worked so hard to expose the medical community to the benefits of modern hypnosis would be so proud to see this kind of success and support for hypnosis happening.

If you have doctors, nurses and medical staff in your area show interest or curiosity about hypnosis, this study and article is another fine reference to provide to them.