title: Hypnotherapy: a cyberphysiologic strategy in pain management.
abstract: Children have the capacity to learn cyberphysiologic strategies in pain management. Training in such strategies can be accomplished in one to four training sessions, depending on the type of pain problems. Even in an acute emergency situation, children can benefit from informal hypnotic and biofeedback techniques. Both clinical and laboratory studies confirm the ability of children to self-regulate specific autonomic functions such as control of peripheral temperature and GSR. Such skills can be used to demonstrate to children the connections between changes in thinking and changes in body responses and pave the way for development of skills in self-regulation of pain.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Olness
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D003491:Cybernetics / Q000266:history; D003887:Desensitization, Psychologic; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis / Q000266:history; D008297:Male; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis; D059408:Pain Management; D010290:Parents; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012008:Recurrence; D012064:Relaxation Therapy