Editor’s note: Mahoney claims that research and patient trials regarding his Ongoing Progressive Session Induction Method (OPSIM) have shown success rates of 85 percent to 95 percent in the reduction of IBS symptoms. His hypnotherapy practice sponsored the UK’s first IBS Awareness evening at Liverpool University in 1997.
As a forward-thinking medical professional, perhaps you have at times become frustrated with patients who don’t get better even though all the procedures and treatments have been given. As a clinical hypnotherapist working with children and adult patients who have gastrointestinal disorders such as IBS, functional abdominal pain (FAP), and Crohn’s, I have seen first-hand how the brain-gut connection can be an integral part of the condition itself.
Guided imagery and clinical hypnotherapy addresses the brain-gut connection in IBS and FAP and has been established as a well-researched method for over 20 years.
Certainly in your daily rounds, you have evaluated children who are presenting with mild to severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, or a combination of both. Extensive medical evaluations and colonoscopies reveal nothing, so it is diagnosed as a functional disorder. From there, pain medications, antispasmodics, diet, fiber, exercise and similar suggestions are made.
