Non-Hypnotists health care providers will learn the appropriate language in working with pain patients, hypnotic techniques and mind/body response to relieving pain.

This is the only seminar that teaches the four non-pharmacological pain control methods and their relationship to hypnosis.

The door for hypnotists to work with multidisciplinary pain management teams has been opened by the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). JCAHO set standards for the assessment of pain and states that alternative non-pharmacological methods for pain management may be used by all hospitals.

Pain clinics are hiring qualified complementary healthcare practitioners to meet these standards. This seminar will focus on hypnotic intervention sessions for patient visits one through four in a comprehensive step-by-step model. The sessions will include the study of hypnotic techniques that can be used for the following chronic pain syndromes, Chronic Post Surgical Pain, Cancer Pain, Labor & Delivery, Fibromyalgia, Back and Neck Pain, Temporomandibular Disorder, Tic Douloureux. Timfe will not allow the indepth techniques for each of the above, but a firm foundation will be established. The participants will chose one specific pain modality and it will be the showcase for teh seminar.

The reason for the use of hypnosis in chronic pain management will be explained with the emphasis on the clinical practice of hypnosis involving physician referrals in an outpatient setting.

Demonstrations and antidotal case studies will be reviewed and will include: the method of hypnotic induction, formulating hypnotic suggestions for decreasing or removal of symptoms, and metaphorical guidelines with goal setting and treatment planning. Hypnosis as a coping skill in dealing with secondary gain will also be included.

This seminar will focus on the use of hypnosis in pain management within the hypnotists confines Specific methods of pain control in the treatment of acute, chronic, and post surgical pain will be presented. This will include the differences between acute and chronic pain, both physiologically and psychologically.

Participants will discuss the use of hypnosis and related relaxation techniques in the management of pain, with a focus on the use of hypnosis as a means of providing the client with a renewed sense of controlling their disease rather than being controlled by it.