Hypnotherapy for IBS (Irritable Bowl Syndrome)

How can hypnotherapy help the symptoms of ibs?

Irritable bowel syndrome is a chronic condition that affects many people across the world. Due to symptoms such as abdominal pain, this disorder can have a big impact on your quality of life. New research, however, has demonstrated that hypnotherapy can improve life for those with the condition.

Hypnotherapy for IBS involves progressive relaxation, and then suggestions of soothing imagery and sensations, focused on the individual’s specific symptoms. Improvements in overall well-being, quality of life, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhoea, and bloating have been noted.

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Research has found that hypnotherapy may help improve the primary symptoms of IBS. It may also help relieve other symptoms suffered by many people with IBS such as nausea, fatigue, backache, and urinary problems. Hypnotherapy appears to offer symptomatic, psychological, and physiological benefit.

Diet, stress, poor sleep and changes in gut bacteria may all trigger symptoms. However, triggers are different for each person, making it difficult to name specific foods or stressors that everyone with the disorder should avoid.

Hypnotherapy has been found to be most effective with abdominal pain, cutting it by an average of half or more in many studies.