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The AMA reports that permanent weight loss with conventional treatment only realizes a 6% success rate. Treatment for tobacco cessation utilizing prescribed medications; nicotine-treated patches, gum and inhalers produced a dismal 18% success rate.

Our success rate is up to 6 times higher. Survey results since 1994, indicate our success to be up to six times higher than conventional methods.

It works quickly and easily. We published on this web site letters of appreciation from police departments, government agencies, major corporations, and health care workers all recommending our program because it works!

After reviewing them, we know you will agree that this cutting-edge program has helped countless nationwide improve the quality of teir life.

Accepted by the AMA and the APA. This clinical approach is accepted by the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association.

UCLA, Stanford, Harvard, John Hopkins, Mayo Clinic. The clinical techniques used, are similar to what psychology departments at these prestigious universities have discovered through extensive research. This is the most effective safest program we are aware of.

The following pictures and clinical conclusions are the results of research
at JAMA, Harvard Medical School, The Mayo Clinic, University of Iowa and
Emergency Room studies, indicating the efficacy of this unique program.

Burn victim and Brain surgery photos courtesy of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Burn Victim:

Chemical anesthesia could not be administered to this severely burned patient. Doing so could cause the patient to go into life-threatening shock. Clinical hypnosis was used to relieve and prevent pain. This is called Hypnoanesthesia. The hypnotherapist is checking the depth of hypnosis the patient is in by using an arm levitation test.

The hypnotherapist (right side of picture) is keeping the patient in a painless state while the surgeon (left side of picture) surgically removes the dead tissue and changes bandages. With her eyes closed, the patient is completely aware of what is going on, but does not feel any pain.

Brain Surgery:

A picture of a man undergoing open brain surgery without use of chemical anesthesia. A 4X4 inch portion of his skull cap has been removed to access his brain. He is in a state of hypnosis (somnambulism, stage 3). He feels no pain. He is aware of what is going on and communicating with the surgeon. The surgeon is on the left side of picture, and the hypnotherapist is on the right. The preceding three pictures were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 1955. (Copyright expired.)

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL

Radiologist Elvira Lang teaches at the “Harvard Medical School”. She is shown here with a patient conducting a study At The University Of Iowa. Her new study shows that clinical hypnosis can reduce the need for meds -- and make surgery faster and smoother.

Conclusion: Half the group decided to take no medicines at all, just hypnosis. The heart rate, blood pressure and blood oxygen levels remained more stable among the hypnosis patients than the non-hypnotic group, so their surgeries went significantly faster. (Courtesy: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Posted 8 August, 2000)

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL

Carol Ginandes and Daniel Rosenthal, professor of radiology at the “Harvard Medical School”, published a report on their study of hypnosis to speed up the mending of broken bones and put down many myths about hypnosis.

They recruited 12 people with broken ankles who did not require surgery and who received the usual treatment at “Massachusetts General Hospital” in Boston. Ginandes hypnotized half of them once a week for 12 weeks, while the other half received only normal treatment. (Note: The same doctor applied the casts and other care, and the same radiologists took regular X-rays to monitor how well they healed. A radiologist who evaluated the X-rays did not know which patients underwent hypnosis.)

Conclusion: The results stood out like a sore ankle. Those who were hypnotized healed faster than those who were not. Six weeks after the fracture, those in the hypnosis group showed the equivalent of eight and a half weeks of healing. (Courtesy: Harvard Gazette Archives Reference: Harvard University Gazette May 8, 2003 (Staff photo by Stephanie Mitchell)

THE MAYO CLINIC

At Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research conducting extensive studies of hypnosis for use in numerous medical conditions. Many important trials reviewed here have helped to establish the role of hypnosis in contemporary medicine. These trials have established the utility and efficacy of hypnosis for several medical conditions, either alone or as part of the treatment regimen.

Health care providers changed their attitudes significantly and positively when presented with information about the use of hypnosis in medicine.

Conclusion: The acceptance of hypnosis as a mode of treatment in medicine is increasing as a result of “careful, methodical, empirical work of many research pioneers.”Sebastian Schulz-Stübner, M.D., Ph.D., Studies Hypnosis As Sedation Alternative. University of Iowa News Release February 6, 2003

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Sebastian Schulz-Stübner, M.D., Ph.D., University of Iowa assistant professor of anesthesia, investigated whether clinical hypnosis could be used in place of sedating drugs to relax patients undergoing surgery with local or regional anesthesia.

In Schulz-Stübner’s study, 48 patients undergoing surgery that required local anesthesia received clinical hypnosis in place of sedating drugs. The study was performed in Aachen University in Germany, where Schulz-Stübner was a physician prior to his move to the UI.

Conclusion: The technique proved to be very successful... All patients undergoing elective surgery were successfully hypnotized and did not require sedating drugs.

EMERGENCY TREATMENT CENTER'S STUDIES

Conclusion: Studies with children in emergency treatment centers show that hypnotherapeutic techniques similar to ours, reduces fear, anxiety, discomfort, and improves self-control and cooperation with medical personnel.

In another study, 83 percent of children significantly or completely recovered from the following: Obesity, asthma, fecal incontinence, anxiety, pain, problematic habits (sleep walking, thumb sucking, nail biting).

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