IBS Blog

Irritable bowel syndrome is a common functional disorder of abdominal region, gastroenterologists come across this dysfunction of intestines the most. The common symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome include bloating, frequent or chronic intestinal or abdominal pains, temporary or prolonged constipation or diarrhea. The researches are still on go to find out what triggers the IBS, so far there is no information of the cause. Psychologists and psychiatrists have experimented hypnotherapy for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) signs and symptoms in both long tern and short term forms.

This syndrome is usually treated by physicians through medications, alterations in diet and stress reduction. Most if the surveys from sufferers find stress the reason of this bowel irritation. But ion the other hand researchers have eliminated stress as the cause. This bowel syndrome does not damage the intestines or lead to other problems but, the symptoms itself gain intensity. These symptoms together can affect life. However hypnosis has shown successful results in reducing the stress and symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.

The literatures studied regarding the experiments on effect of hypnotherapy on Irritable Bowel Syndrome have been done. The study was conducted on 30 participants, 15 out of them have been suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and the rest were the control participants. The Irritable Bowel syndrome patients showed improved bowel movements and intestine functions after the hypnotherapy sessions. This concludes that hypnotherapy does help in reducing Irritable Bowel Syndrome symptoms and makes life better.

Another study was conducted on 204 Irritable Bowel Syndrome patients. Here, the researches conducted the experiment to study the long term benefits of hypnosis. All the participants got treated successfully. They were also administered with the questionnaire regarding the change they felt in their lives after treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome through hypnotherapy. It was seen that the patients lead successful and healthy life for next 6 years.

Several studies show that most of the participants suffering from irritable bowel syndrome felt improvement after hypnotherapy, where 81% of them maintained this improvement by taking healthy diet and stress free life, where as the rest 19% experienced some of the symptoms again. The questionnaire showed that there was no great difference in the patients going through hypnosis treatment 1,2,3,4 or 5 years ago. Their quality of life is same and is now leading better life. The results conclude that hypnosis at least provides long term benefit of 5 years following the treatment

Scientists, physiologists and pathologists have been conducting several studies to find how beneficial is hypnotherapy in treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and the reasons of its occurrence. There have been several reasons provided but there are together controversies there which are hindering the research pathways. So far, hypnosis is a successful treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and is showing its long term effects in improving the symptoms and making life healthier and happier. Those who have been suffering from this since years are now leading a happy and healthy life and thank hypnosis for it.