Tim Brunson DCH

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Outcomes in Management & Nursing Practice

Posted At : November 17, 2006 2:45 PM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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In 1998, a research team led by Linda Halpin at the Inova Heart Center of Inova Fairfax Hospital compared cardiac surgical outcomes between two groups of heart patients - with and without guided imagery. A questionnaire was developed to assess the benefits of the guided imagery program to those who elected to participate in it, and, in addition, data from the hospital financial cost-accounting database were collected and matched to the two groups of patients. Analysis of the data revealed that patients who completed the guided imagery program had a shorter average length of stay, a decrease in average direct pharmacy costs, and a decrease in average direct pain medication costs while maintaining high overall patient satisfaction with the care and treatment provided.

Guided imagery is now used as a standard, complementary therapy to help reduce anxiety, pain, and length of stay among the cardiac surgery patients at Inova Fairfax.

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Hypnotic emotional numbing: a study of implicit emotion

Posted At : November 17, 2006 6:52 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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Twenty high hypnotizable and 20 low hypnotizable participants were administered a hypnotic induction and then presented with emotionally distressing and neutral visual images. Half the participants were administered a suggestion for emotional numbing. Participants were then asked to rate the valence of neutral words that were preceded by subliminal presentations of the negative and neutral images.

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Hypnotic susceptibility, baseline attentional functioning, and the Stroop task

Posted At : November 17, 2006 6:02 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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According to the theoretical framework relating hypnosis to attention, baseline attentional functioning in highly hypnotizable individuals should be more efficient than in low hypnotizable individuals. However, previous studies did not find differences in Stroop-like tasks in which the measure indicative of the Stroop interference effect was based on response latencies.

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Therapy outcome after multidisciplinary treatment for chronic neck and chronic low back pain

Posted At : November 17, 2006 5:21 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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This prospective longitudinal clinical study analyses the therapy outcome of 365 patients with either chronic neck (n = 134) or low back (n = 231) pain treated with a multidisciplinary biopsychosocial therapy approach.Methods: Patients with chronic neck pain (NP) or low back pain (LBP) for 3 months or longer, corresponding sick leave for longer than 6 weeks, and clearly defined inclusion and exclusion criteria underwent a 3-week standardized inpatient multidisciplinary biopsychosocial therapy.

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New Report Finds Pain Affects Millions Of Americans

Posted At : November 17, 2006 5:02 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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One in four U.S. adults say they suffered a day-long bout of pain in the past month, and one in 10 say the pain lasted a year or more, according to the government's annual, comprehensive report of Americans' health, Health United States, 2006, released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.

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A continuum of hypnotherapeutic interactions: from formal hypnosis to hypnotic conversation

Posted At : November 17, 2006 1:45 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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Hypnotherapeutic interactions can be mapped on a continuum from formal hypnosis to hypnotic conversation. Unlike the structured forms of formal hypnosis, hypnotic conversation relies upon utilizing the client's responses, both verbal and non-verbal, to facilitate therapeutic process. In this paper, we illustrate this continuum with a series of anecdotal clinical examples starting with formal hypnosis and moving incrementally towards hypnotic conversation.

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