Hypnotherapy demonstrates efficacy in improving hot flashes.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, with more than 230,000 anticipated new cases in 2013. Owing to improvements in screening, diagnosis, and therapy for breast cancer, the survival rate continues to improve, and there are now more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the USA.
Among breast cancer survivors, hot flashes are a frequent and bothersome symptom. Up to 90% of young breast cancer survivors experience premature menopause because of adjuvant treatment strategies such as chemotherapy, antiestrogenic agents, and ovarian ablation techniques. In addition to therapy-induced hot flashes, these vasomotor symptoms are common among breast cancer survivors undergoing natural menopause.
Hypnosis is a mind–body therapy involving the induction of a state of deep relaxation that allows the patient to suspend critical faculties and allow suggestibility. Your hot flashes can be reduced with hypnosis in NYC.
In a pilot study evaluating hypnotherapy for the treatment of hot flashes in breast cancer survivors, 16 women experienced a 59% reduction in hot flash frequency. 26 In a randomized trial comparing hypnotherapy to no treatment, 60 female breast cancer survivors were randomized to receive either hypnosis or no treatment.
The women who underwent hypnotherapy reported a reduction in hot flash severity scores (HFSS) of 68% and also reported improvement in quality of life variables such as insomnia. 27 women receiving hypnotherapy did not report side effects in either trial.
Hypnotherapy has been further validated as a treatment for hot flashes in a recent clinical trial that randomized 187 postmenopausal women to undergo clinical hypnosis or structured-attention control. 28 women in the treatment group experienced a 74% reduction in hot flash frequency compared with a 17% reduction in the control group.
Read the full article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3773636/
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