Harvard Researchers Use Hypnosis To Heal Broken Bones

Let’s face it, hypnosis can sound far-fetched.  Is it really possible to eliminate deeply seated fears, kill powerful habits such as smoking, and improve performance in everything from sports to academics, all by simply relaxing and following the words of a hypnotist?

The answer turns out to be yes, and Carol Ginandes and Daniel Rosenthal of the Harvard Medical School are working hard to prove it!

In an article entitled Hypnosis helps healing: Surgical wounds mend faster (Cromie, W. J.,  Harvard University Gazette), Ginandes is quoted as follows:

“Hypnosis has been used in Western medicine for more than 150 years to treat everything from anxiety to pain, from easing the nausea of cancer chemotherapy to enhancing sports performance,” Ginandes says. A list of applications she provides includes treatment of phobias, panic, low self-esteem, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, stress, smoking, colitis, warts, headaches, and high blood pressure.

Working with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Ginandes and Rosenthal recruited a group of patients with broken ankles.  The patients all received the same treatment over a period of twelve weeks, with one crucial difference – half of them were hypnotized once per week.  At the end of the study it was shown conclusively, and confirmed by an independent radiologist, that the group that received the hypnosis treatment in addition to the normal treatment healed significantly faster than the non-hypnosis group.  How much faster?  Try this – after only six weeks of treatment, the hypnosis group showed healing equivalent to eight and a half weeks!

Hypnosis can be used to heal broken bones, a significant finding on the part of Western mainstream medicine!

While this study was small, it was nevertheless encouraging, and the researchers have since been pursuing more opportunities to explore the power of the mind to heal the body.

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