Monday, September 24, 2007

alternative medicine or giant hoax!!!

Is using Hypnotherapy to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome a valid treatment. A few articles posted online believe that it is. Some researchers are using Gut-directed Hypnotherapy to help sufferers with IBS. Paitients to go hypnotherapists' offices and get treatment for their disability, and after about 8 to 12 sessions their symptoms lessen. This alternative to traditional medicine is some what contriversial but i believe that if people are some how feeling relief from the GDH then why question it. People are not getting hurt by participating in these sessions and the treamemnts appear to be working for the majority of the sufferes.
IBS sufferers are always looking for some way to alleviate their discomfort since traditional medicines do not always work. This alternative medicine gives these people some hope that their situation might be rectified.
One of the problems with this treatment is that is has not been extensivly tested by many doctors. In some of the trials run only a small number of subjects were tested and their were no controls. In other trials controls were used but not on a significant scale.

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