Text Box: Consultations available at:- Whistlewood Heath Lane Upper Hale Farnham Surrey GU9 0PR 10 Harley Street London W1G 9PF The Odiham Clinic 2 High Street Odiham Hampshire RG29 1LG Redwood Health Therapies 11 Bridge Street Winchester Hants SO23 0HL The Fountain Centre St Lukes Cancer Centre Royal Surrey County Hospital Egerton Road Guildford Surrey GU2 7XX Home or business consultations possible by appointment. Complementary lectures and talks given to interested groups and organisations. British Society Clinical Hypnosis Surrey LogoText Box: Who do we see and which areas do we cover? We are able to help patients worldwide in improving their lives with general and personalised self help products. We also arrange personal consultations with patients who travel to us from all over the UK, Europe and the Middle East (such is our reputation) and these include household names, top international sports people, world names in industry, doctors and nurses, forces personnel, business men and women, housewives, teachers, students and public sector employees. In fact we help people from just about every walk of life. Most of these come to us from personal recommendations from colleagues or friends that have visited us before or from GP’s or other health care professionals. However, it is fair to say that the majority of our patients are from the following areas:- Aldershot Alton Andover Ascot Bagshot Basingstoke Berkshire Bordon Bracknell Camberley Crowthorne Chobham Cobham Eastleigh Egham Fareham Farnham Farnborough Fleet Frimley Godalming Guildford Hampshire Hartley Wintney Hook, London (Harley Street) Odiham Petersfield Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Southampton Staines Surrey West Sussex Weybridge Whitehill Winchester Woking Wokingham Surrey, Hants, Berkshire, West Sussex, Central and Greater London. Text Box: All contents of this website copyright 2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 Garry Coles / Release Hypnotherapy Text Box: Hypnotherapy treatment for Pain control Hypnotherapy is now widely accepted as a method of pain relief ; it is even sometimes used on people under-going surgical procedures without anaesthetic using only hypnotherapy, though these are extreme occurrences. Pain happens as messages are sent via the nervous system, to the brain which then tells us that we are feeling it, hypnotherapists work by teaching the brain how to stop interpreting these signals and telling our body to react accordingly. Its aim is to give control of the pain back to the person, instead of the pain being the controlling issue, with the hope of encouraging a more positive approach to pain management. There are two main theories as to how hypnotherapy can aid in pain relief and altering a person’s perception of pain. It is believed, acute pain is treated by using powerful suggestions aimed at reducing pain associated anxiety and by lowering the importance of pain, to the individual. Chronic pain is tackled by addressing the pain head-on and dealing with its physical and psychological effects as they occur to offer pain relief. We know about hypnotherapy's effectiveness as a pain management tool largely through the research and publications of Ernest Hillgard, former emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, who used a control research group to show that hypnosis was highly effective in managing pain. Text Box: Pain Relief and Pain Management Using Hypnosis Pain should never be treated for its own sake, but if the underlying cause is known and your doctor gives permission, hypnosis can be very effective in relieving pain. It is important that the cause of the pain has been investigated by a medical practitioner Pain is sometimes a symptom of a more serious underlying condition, for example, a persistent headache could be a symptom of a brain tumour. If the hypnotherapist were to treat the headache in this example, before the root cause of the pain was known, then this could well lead to the brain tumour not being diagnosed for longer. However, if the patient had already been to their doctor and more serious causes of the headaches had been eliminated, then it would be fine for the hypnotherapist to proceed with treatment. . Please contact us now for further details or to make an appointment. Don’t wait, call today and take those first steps in taking control to live a happier more fulfilling life.