Some of the hospital staff, nurses and doctors will be trained in the technique of hypnosis before the end of the year. Eventually, all nursing staff will be able to practice it. The case is sufficiently exceptional in France to be underlined. Hypnosis has been practiced for seven years in France in operating theaters and pain centers. But its development remains timid and still few hospitals use it. The fields of intervention are numerous since hypnosis makes it possible to take charge of the patient other than by drugs or invasive methods. Trained doctors can use it in addition to general anesthesia or to help the patient to de-stress before an operation or delicate care. Hypnosis can also be used to treat certain addictions such as tobacco or eating disorders.
At the Aix en Provence hospital, we are convinced that hypnosis improves the patient’s condition. Before surgery, for example, she “allows less numbing product to be injected into the patient’s body. He therefore recovers faster “, explains Delphine Baudoin, doctor in charge of the pain treatment unit at the Aix University Hospital, cited by 20 minutes.
During hypnosis, the patient is elsewhere
The patient who accepts to be medically hypnotized is placed in a different state of consciousness where he learns to disconnect from external reality in order to refocus on his inner well-being. Under hypnosis, he feels good and does not hurt. He thus forgets his operation and the pain.
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