Hypnotherapist
Specialist in Cancer Support
Specialist in Cancer Support
Recipient of the Penny Brohn Cancer Care Education Award 2007
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) - articles, research, books...
Here is some further information on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS):
‘Hypnotherapy fixed my irritable bowel syndrome after six years of suffering’ - Daily Mail
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
This full page article on IBS, has the headline: ‘Hypnotherapy fixed my irritable bowel syndrome after six years of suffering’. It reports on a lady sent by her GP to see a Hypnotherapist after years of problems. ‘The therapy has proved highly effective, with a recent study showing it had helped 71% of patients for up to 5 years afterwards’. The lady commented: ‘It really works’
Daily Mail, p47, 25/10/05
‘...psychotherapy and hypnosis benefit IBS sufferers.’ - The Practitioner
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
This article on IBS says ‘Clinical trials have shown that psychotherapy and hypnosis benefit IBS sufferers.’
The Practitioner, vol 240, p187
Further reading:
1. Farthing MJG, Irritable bowel, irritable body or irritable brain? BMJ 1995;310:171-5
2. Spiller RC, Creed F. Irritable bowel or irritable mind?
This full page article on IBS, has the headline: ‘Hypnotherapy fixed my irritable bowel syndrome after six years of suffering’. It reports on a lady sent by her GP to see a Hypnotherapist after years of problems. ‘The therapy has proved highly effective, with a recent study showing it had helped 71% of patients for up to 5 years afterwards’. The lady commented: ‘It really works’
Daily Mail, p47, 25/10/05
‘...psychotherapy and hypnosis benefit IBS sufferers.’ -
This article on IBS says ‘Clinical trials have shown that psychotherapy and hypnosis benefit IBS sufferers.’
The Practitioner, vol 240, p187
Further reading:
1. Farthing MJG, Irritable bowel, irritable body or irritable brain? BMJ 1995;310:171-
‘Hypnosis can help to settle everyday problems in the stomach, but it isn’t easily available on the NHS’ - The Times
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
This large article on IBS and hypnosis says ‘For 20 years researchers at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester have been studying hypnosis and have shown that it can relieve irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); and the team has recently found that it works on indigestion too.’
‘Dr Whorwell’s centre in Manchester is the only NHS Hypnotherapy unit in the country. And he is pessimistic that provision will improve... “The best thing you can do is go to your GP and ask for a good Hypnotherapist”, he says’
The Times newspaper 27/05/03
‘Hypnotherapy works for bowel pain’ -BBC
A web article about Hypnotherapy being an effective long term treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The report highlights research done at the Withington Hospital, Manchester, and published in the medical journal ‘Gut’.
www.bbc.co.uk/news 22/10/03 See the article.
‘Hypnotherapy changed my life’ - BBC
Web article on a man who suffered with IBS.
www.bbc.co.uk/news 4/01/04 See the full article.
This large article on IBS and hypnosis says ‘For 20 years researchers at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester have been studying hypnosis and have shown that it can relieve irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); and the team has recently found that it works on indigestion too.’
‘Dr Whorwell’s centre in Manchester is the only NHS Hypnotherapy unit in the country. And he is pessimistic that provision will improve... “The best thing you can do is go to your GP and ask for a good Hypnotherapist”, he says’
The Times newspaper 27/05/03
‘Hypnotherapy works for bowel pain’ -
www.bbc.co.uk/news 22/10/03 See the article.
‘Hypnotherapy changed my life’ -
www.bbc.co.uk/news 4/01/04 See the full article.