LONDON — As the surgeons cut into her neck, Marianne Marquis was thinking of the beach. As she heard the doctors’ voices, she was imagining her toes in the sand, the water lapping. Anesthesiologist ...

Anaesthesiologists have found that using a combination of hypnosis and local anaesthesia (LA) in surgery where LA is feasible but, not on its own, sufficient to ensure patient comfort, can aid healing ...

June 14, 2011 — For certain types of breast and thyroid surgery, a combination of hypnosis and local anesthesia is feasible, can aid in the healing process, and can reduce drug use and time spent in ...

Just imagine that the whirring noise—from drills and saws cutting into your skull—is the gentle engine-hum of a motorboat, gliding past your canoe as you float in a tranquil lake. Those may be some of ...

When you think of hypnotherapy you might imagine a swinging pendulum and a spooky trance. But hypnotherapy has been gaining popularity for problems like smoking cessation, anxiety and weight loss.Now ...

For patients undergoing surgery for low-grade glioma, who must be "awake" to facilitate mapping, hypnosis allows surgeons to safely remove the tumor up to functional boundaries, according to a ...

Could hypnosis help to reduce the psychological trauma associated with 'awake craniotomy' for brain cancers? A new 'hypnosedation' technique offers a new alternative for patients undergoing awake ...

Staying awake during brain surgery? Surgeons in France investigated whether using hypnotherapy could be successfully performed in patients undergoing removal of brain tumor. craniotomy via ...

Source: Maya Mizrahi and Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center/ Used with permission Several randomized controlled trials and meta-analysis have investigated weight loss through hypnosis, finding small ...

As the surgeons cut into her neck, Marianne Marquis was thinking of the beach. As she heard the doctors’ voices, she was imagining her toes in the sand, the water lapping. Marquis had been hypnotized ...