James H. Stewart, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida, undertakes a review of the recent literature on . . . → Read More: Healing from Surgery or Injury
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James H. Stewart, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida, undertakes a review of the recent literature on the uses of hypnosis in . . . → Read More: Anesthesia for Surgery James H. Stewart, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida, undertakes a review of the recent literature on the uses of hypnosis in contemporary medicine. A report from the 1960s . . . → Read More: Surgery Health Journeys guided imagery program with Blue Shield of California begun in 2000. Individuals facing one of 90 elective surgeries were sent guided imagery tapes. Here are findings from data gathered in 2000–2001; they are based on 900 completed patient surveys: while 45% of patients experienced high anxiety before listening to the tapes, less than 5% . . . → Read More: Guided imagery helps surgery patients manage anxiety and medical bills In 1998, a research team led by Linda Halpin at the Inova Heart Center of Inova Fairfax Hospital compared cardiac surgical outcomes between two groups of heart patients – with and without guided imagery. A questionnaire was developed to assess the benefits of the guided imagery program to those who elected to participate in it, and, . . . → Read More: Guided imagery in cardiac surgery Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea studied the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation training and guided imagery in reducing the anticipatory nausea and vomiting and post-chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in increasing quality of life for patients with breast cancer. Thirty new chemotherapy patients . . . → Read More: Guided Imagery: Improving Quality of Life for Patients with Breast Cancer Ninety-six women with newly diagnosed, large or locally advanced breast cancer were randomly assigned to either standard care, or standard care plus relaxation training and guided imagery (imagining host defences destroying tumor cells) at the University of Aberdeen Behavioural Oncology Unit in the UK. They were tested for mood and quality of life before each of the . . . → Read More: Relaxation training and guided imagery improve quality of life during chemotherapy Researchers from the Department of Plastic Surgery of University Medical Center Groningen, in The Netherlands, sought to see whether practicing motor imagery during the immobilization period after flexor tendon injury results in a faster recovery of hand function. The randomized controlled trial included 28 patients, post-surgery for flexor tendon repair, who were randomly assigned to either an . . . → Read More: Practicing Motor Imagery during the Immobilization Period after Flexor Tendon Injury Results in a Faster Recovery of Hand Function |
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