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Article: Low back pain and hypnosis.(Psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology Review and Commentary)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Fifteen adults 18-43 years of age with chronic low back pain (mean duration 4 years) were found to be moderately/highly hypnotizable based on the modified 11-point Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale. Somatosensory event-related potential correlates of noxious electrical stimulation were evaluated during attend (control) and hypnotic analgesia conditions at anterior frontal, midfrontal, central, and parietal regions. Significant brain inhibitory processing was evidenced in different brain locations (p
Crawford HJ et al. Hypnotic analgesia: 1. Somatosensory event-related potential changes to noxious stimull and 2. Transfer learning to reduce chronic low back pain. Int J ...