Hypno-Relaxation on Cancer's Patients
Jose R Ponc, Joel Eduardo Martinez
Neurology and Neuroscience Reports 2018 DOI: 10.15761/nnr.1000103 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Peer reviewed |
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| Population | Cancer patients |
| Key points | The authors report that hypno-relaxation was associated with reduced pain, anxiety, and depression, weight gain, and improved social and family functioning in cancer patients, with reduced ascites edema in one case. They conclude that improvement was observed, though follow-up was not possible for all cases, and suggest the technique may be useful in this population. |
Abstract
Introduction: Since ancient times, different thinkers saw the harmful effects of extreme emotion on humans.Actually, is known as that affective process implies the imbalance that constitutes stress, and the damage that this produces mainly to the immune system.Therefore, the stress has it effect the growth of cancerous tissue in the patient with said disease.Consequently, the reduction or remission of stress through relaxing hypnosis suggests the usefulness in the favorable evolution of the patient.Objectives: To evaluate the effect of relaxing hypnosis on the state of stress of the cancer patient. Method:The technique used in this research is based on the theory and technique of Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School; also the hypnosis' technique of Konstantin Platonov, from Russia, the classical techniques of relaxation of Heinrich Schultz and Edmund Jacobson, and the Meditation from Maharishi University, Iowa, USA.The hypno-relaxation takes account the conception of Walter Hess, Swiss physician Nobel Prize in Medicine, about the mechanism of physiological defense of the body.Hypothetically, the emotional inhibition under the effect of the hypno-relaxation reduces the stress and the related disorders in cancer's patient.Results: Among the outcomes it was observed reduction of pain, anxiety and depression, weight gain, and elevation of social and family functioning.It was reduced the ascites edema in a case. Conclusions:Although it was not possible to know the evolution after hypno-relaxation treatment in all cases it was observed improvement.These results suggest utility in the hypno-relaxation in cancer patients.