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Colitis Foundation: "Hypnosis helps"
She was afraid to participate in a friend's wedding; he was afraid to go on a business trip with his boss.
They suffered from ulcerative colitis and worried about embarrassing bowel accidents. Hypnotherapy helped.
These patients were cited in the preliminary results of an ongoing study presented recently at a conference in Chicago sponsored by the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America.
Laurie Keefer told the conference that treatment with hypnotherapy enabled some subjects to socialize more and get involved in activities such as eating at restaurants, exercising and road trips. Some of the 27 subjects already enrolled in the study feel less impaired by their disease and are better at remembering to take their pills. The man and the woman mentioned earlier are both feeling more confident about traveling and social events. Keefer is a clinical health psychologist and an assistant professor of medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
For more on the preliminary results of this NIH-sponsored study on hypnosis and colitis, see the report at Science Daily:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121207.htm
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