ArticleThe open pain journal2010
The Role of Suggestions in Hypnosis for Chronic Pain: A Review of the Literature.
Article in The open pain journal, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effort and control of pain: a dilemma for patients and providers.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Adjunctive use of hypnosis for clinical pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Pain reports · 2024Review
- Psychological Approaches for Migraine Management.Anesthesiology clinics · 2023Review
- The effect of hypnosis on pain relief due to injection of dental infiltration anesthesia.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2021Article
- Individual Traits and Pain Treatment: The Case of Hypnotizability.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Psychological Interventions for Women with Persistent Pelvic Pain: A Survey of Mental Health Clinicians.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2021Article
- The Role of Hypnosis in Cancer Care.Current oncology reports · 2018Review
- Randomized trial of hypnosis as a pain and symptom management strategy in adults with sickle cell disease.Integrative medicine insights · 2014Article
- Neurophysiology of pain and hypnosis for chronic pain.Translational behavioral medicine · 2012Article
- Hypnosis for the Management of Anticipatory Nausea and Vomiting.Journal of the advanced practitioner in oncologyReview
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Abstract
Several controlled trials have demonstrated that hypnosis is an efficacious treatment for chronic pain. However, less attention has been given to the specific procedures and suggestions used in hypnotic treatments in research. The goal of this review was to address the issue of differences in the content of hypnotic suggestions, including pain management suggestions, non-pain related suggestions, and posthypnotic suggestions, in the context of published clinical trials of hypnosis for chronic pain management. This review focused on the types of suggestions used in twenty five studies comparing hypnosis to active treatments (e.g., relaxation, biofeedback), non-treatment control groups (e.g., standard care/wait-list control, supportive attention), or both in adult populations with various chronic pain conditions. Overall, these studies found hypnosis to be more effective than non-treatment control groups and similarly effective when compared to active treatments on pain-related outcomes when either pain-related suggestions or non-pain related suggestions were used. However, for studies that included both pain-specific and non-pain related suggestions, hypnosis was found to be superior to active treatments on a variety of pain-related outcomes.
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