Full title: Psychological interventions for symptomatic management of non-specific chest pain in patients with normal coronary anatomy.

Recurrent chest pain in the absence of coronary artery disease is a common problem that sometimes leads to excess use of medical care. Although many studies examine the causes of pain in these patients, few clinical trials have evaluated treatment. The studies reviewed in this paper provide an insight into the effectiveness of psychological interventions for this group of patients. To update the previously published systematic review. We searched the Cochrane LIbrary (CENTRAL and DARE) (Issue 3 of 4 2011), MEDLINE (1966 to August Week 5, 2011), CINAHL (1982 to Sept 2011) EMBASE (1980 to Week 35 2011), PsycINFO (1887 to Sept Week 1, 2011), and Biological Abstracts (January 1980 to Sept 2011). We also searched citation lists and approached authors. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with standardised outcome methodology that tested any form of psychotherapy for chest pain with normal anatomy. Diagnoses included non-specific chest pain (NSCP), atypical chest pain, syndrome X, or chest pain with normal coronary anatomy (as either inpatients or outpatients). Two authors independently selected studies for inclusion, extracted data and assessed quality of studies. The authors contacted trial authors for further information about the RCTs included. Six new RCTs were located and added to the existing trials, therefore, a total of 15 RCTs (803 participants) were included. There was a significant reduction in reports of chest pain in the first three months following the intervention; fixed-effect relative risk = 0.68 (95% CI 0.57 to 0.81). This was maintained from three to nine months afterwards; relative risk = 0.59 (95% CI 0.45 to 0.76). There was also a significant increase in the number of chest pain free days up to three months following the intervention; mean difference = 2.81 (95% CI 1.28 to 4.34). This was associated with reduced chest pain frequency (random-effects mean difference = -2.26 95% CI -4.41 to -0.12) but there was no evidence of effect of treatment on chest pain frequency from three to twelve months (random-effects mean difference -0.81 95% CI -2.35, 0.74). There was no effect on severity (random-effects mean difference = -4.64 (95% CI -12.18 to 2.89) up to three months after the intervention. Overall there was generally a low risk of bias, however, there was high heterogeneity and caution is required in interpreting these results. Wide variability in outcome measures made integration of studies for secondary outcome measures difficult to report on. This review suggests a modest to moderate benefit for psychological interventions, particularly those using a cognitive-behavioural framework, which was largely restricted to the first three months after the intervention. Hypnotherapy is also a possible alternative. The evidence for brief interventions was less clear. Further RCTs of psychological interventions for NSCP with follow-up periods of at least 12 months are needed.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Jun 13;6:CD004101. Kisely SR, Campbell LA, Yelland MJ, Paydar A. School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.s.kisely@uq.edu.au.

Full title: The Effects of Slow-Stroke Back Massage on Minutes of Nighttime Sleep in Persons With Dementia and Sleep Disturbances in the Nursing Home: A Pilot Study.

This pilot study tested the effects of a 3-minute slow-stroke back massage (SSBM) on total minutes of nighttime sleep on persons with dementia with sleep disturbances aged 65 years or older in the nursing home. Design: Pilot randomized controlled trial. Methods: Participants were randomized to an intervention group (n = 20) who received the 3-minute SSBM or a usual care control condition group (n = 20) who received usual bedtime care. Forty-eight hours of actigraphy data was recorded and analyzed on sleep variables at baseline and postintervention. Findings: Descriptive statistics showed a 36-minute increase on minutes of nighttime sleep in the SSBM intervention group (46.1 minutes) compared with the control group (10.32 minutes). Analysis of covariance did not reveal significant differences between the intervention and control groups on minutes of nighttime sleep, F(1, 37) = 1.90, p = .18, partial ?(2) = .05, or on other sleep variables. Conclusions: Dose-finding studies are needed to determine the duration of SSBM for sleep promotion. Findings from this pilot study suggest that SSBM may be an effective nursing intervention for sleep in persons with dementia in the nursing home, but further testing is needed to provide definitive results.

J Holist Nurs. 2012 Sep 24. Harris ML, Richards KC, Grando VT.

Music-based interventions with children are an effective method in health and sickness treatment and in education systems. The engagement with music enables positive transfer effects on extra-musical developmental domains. Music therapy was applied primarily as a practically-oriented scientific discipline both within the framework of a multi-modal therapy approach as one treatment component and focused specifically on children with emotional disorders within a somatic therapy concept and in rehabilitation. The following narrative overview will present music therapy's working basis, treatment goals, and select outcome research in children from 2005-2010. There currently exists a substantial lack, even within empirical research, in relation to the application of music therapy to children. This is an opportunity to initiate a broad range of study for the future. Current challenges and opportunities in scientific, music-based intervention in the paediatric population lie in the concretization of differential indications (both in intervention approach and duration), replicable comparative therapy (alternated treatment-design), the application of a music-therapeutic placebo requirement, as well as in the verification and analysis of specific music therapeutic mechanisms.

Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr. 2012;61(4):235-54. Kiese-Himmel C. Phoniatrisch/Pädaudiologische Psychologie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Waldweg, Göttingen. ckiese@med.uni-goettingen.de

by Michael Ellner,

IMDHA Director of Regulatory Affairs

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; ?I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; ?I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out;? I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews, ?I remained silent; ?I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me, ?there was no one left to speak out.

~ Martin Niemoller

With all due respect to the law, I believe Israel's sudden enforcement of a 1984 hypnosis law is a serious step in the wrong direction and a matter of concern for all of us!

While I advise Israeli hypnosis and NLP practitioners to respect the law, I believe that we all should work together to first, stopthe enforcement of a law that is nearly three decades old and second, kill or change the 1984 law confining the practice of hypnosis in Israel to medical professionals while criminalizing hypnosis and NLP practitioners who are not licensed medical practitioners.

Both of these goals can be accomplished as easily as putting friendly pressure on Israel's Health Ministry by creating an international petition calling on them to investigate their advisory committee's justification and motives for this sudden enforcement. I recommend the IMDHA send a letter to the Israeli Health Ministry respectfully challenging the logic and motivations of their Advisory Committees actions in this matter. We are not against the responsible regulation of hypnosis practitioners in Israel but that's not what the sudden enforcement and criminalization of non-licensed hypnosis and NLP practitioners is about. There were no complaints and no one was harmed to trigger this. There is little or no legitimate evidence warranting the sudden crack down on the practices of non-licensed medical hypnosis practitioners in Israel! Quite frankly, this is an abuse of power for all the wrong reasons.

Natalie Pik, the first hypnotist convicted of practicing hypnosis without a license in Israel's legal history was busted for placing an ad and teaching guided imagery. Nine other non-licensed hypnotists are currently under investigation. There is no need for this! Non-licensed hypnosis practitioners do not diagnose or treat diseases. We simply help people utilize their own innate healing resources by teaching them to de-stress and focus their attention in ways that promote, health, healing and well being. We help them become more effective in all areas of their lives. It would be in the best interest of the citizens of Israel to have health care providers utilize our services as a supplement to their patients' medical care. Instead, Dr. Alex Aviv, who is the head of the Ministry's advisory committee, is on a vendetta to wipe out non-licensed hypnosis and NLP practitioners. Quite frankly, I am confident that an investigation into this sudden enforcement will find no justification other than protectionism and the desire to outlaw credible competition!

Two serious consequence of restricting the practice of hypnosis by non-licensed medical hypnotists in Israel would be 1) denying the citizens of Israel access to cost effective assistance and 2) it would put 1000's of hypnotists and NLP practitioners out of work. Equally important, I believe the criminalization will be a springboard for the enactment of restrictive laws to spread like wildfire throughout the world. There were already efforts by a division of the Royal Medical Society to brand non-medical hypnosis practitioners as "cowboys" and advocate their restriction in the UK. That effort burned out quickly, but this current outrage could add fuel to their embers and re-start the fire. I can imagine the members of the Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine section of the Royal Society of Medicine and the members of the APA's division 30 licking their lips and reinvigorating their efforts to restrict hypnosis to licensed medical practitioners in the UK and US respectively.

Please join me in supporting Israeli Hypnosis and NLP practitioners. United We Stand - Divided, we could be denied the right to use our training and experience to assist people who want and need our services!

I have started an on-line petition and encourage all hypnosis practitioners to sign on and support this effort.

Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/the-israeli-ministry-of-health-suspend-the-enforcement-of-the-1984-hypnosis-laws

Seth-Deborah Roth has been in the medical profession since 1969 when she became a registered nurse working in oncology nursing. Soon after, she completed a years training, at a major New York teaching hospital, in a 12 suite operating room . She then worked in the operating room of a 500 bed orthopedic hospital in New York City. In 1973, she entered a Nurse Anesthetist training program at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.Kings County Hospital had 1500 beds at that time. Seth-Deborah finished her training in 1975 doing over 3,000 cases before graduating. During her training in anesthesia is when she first witnessed the use of hypnosis for surgery. She is married to a physician who totally supports her in realizing how much the mind and body are connected.

Seth-Deborah is Certified Instructor and faculty member of the National Guild of Hypnosis. She is also a member of the National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists, the International Hypnosis Federation, the American Board of Hypnosis and the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. She is an instructor in Medical Hypnosis at the "Hypnotherapy Center" in Oakland California. She received the 2005 "Award of Excellence" in the category of Health Care from the International Hypnosis Federation (IHF). She has been featured on the Discovery Channel's "Myth Busters" segment on hypnosis.

For more information, please visit http://www.hypnotherapyforhealth.com/.

This case study reviews the conservative chiropractic treatment of hip osteoarthritis (OA) and the prescription of a rehabilitation program for a recreational golfer. A 49-year-old registered nurse/ college instructor presented with a five year history of left hip OA and pain, recent right hip pain and occasional low back stiffness. Once her symptoms improved, a golf-specific functional rehabilitation program was prescribed in preparation for the upcoming golf season. The initial treatment included ultrasound, soft tissue and myofascial therapy, mobilizations, acupuncture and home advice. Rehabilitative exercises included core and scapular stability exercises, general conditioning, golf specific stretches, functional swinging, proprioceptive and strengthening exercises, and referral to a swing coach. The positive outcomes included increased ranges of motion, decreased pain, as well as improvements in golf driving distance and endurance. Conservative management and golf-specific rehabilitation prescription appears to be beneficial for hip OA and recreational golf performance in this case.

J Can Chiropr Assoc. 2012 Sep;56(3):201-8. Howell ER. Ashbridge's Health Centre, 1522 Queen St. East, Toronto, ON M4L 1E3. E-mail: dremilyhowell@hotmail.com

Full title: Delsartean hypnosis for girls' bodies and minds: Annie Payson Call and the Lasell Seminary nerve training controversy.

In the summer of 1890, news that two students at Lasell Seminary for Young Women in Auburndale, MA had suffered a complete nervous collapse as a result of being hypnotized by an instructor in a nerve training class caused a brief but sharp national sensation regarding hypnotism and nerve training in girls' education. The instructor, Annie Payson Call, denied practicing hypnotism, and the seminary's principal defended both Call and the "mind concentration" course she taught at Lasell. Call's approach to nerve training blended Delsartean relaxation exercises, New Thought psychology, and self-hypnotic techniques into a therapeutic regimen which can be termed "Delsartean hypnosis." Developed further in her 1891 popular self-help handbook, Power Through Repose, Call's variety of Delsartean hypnosis was incorporated into the procedures of proponents of suggestive therapeutics, and it served as a model for subsequent relaxation training programs in the early- and mid-20th century.

Hist Psychol. 2012 May;15(2):124-44. Andrick JM. Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Oak Street Library Facility, 809 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA. andrick@illinois.edu

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuro-psychiatric disorder being characterized by motor and phonic tics typically preceded by sensory urges. Given the latter the role of the sensory system and sensorimotor interaction in TS has recently gained increased attention. 12 TS patients and 12 matched control subjects performed two tasks, requiring simple finger movements: a Go/NoGo task and a self paced movement task. Neurophysiological data was recorded using magnetoencephalography (MEG). Event related responses around movement onset, i.e. motor field (MF) occurring directly prior to the movement and movement evoked field (MEF) immediately after movement onset were analyzed using dipole modeling. MF peak amplitudes did not differ between groups in either task. In contrast, in both tasks MEF peak amplitudes were increased in TS patients. Moreover, larger MEF amplitudes during self paced movements were inversely correlated with motor tic frequency and severity. Enlarged MEF amplitudes as a marker of early sensory feedback of one's own movements probably represent enlarged sensory input from the periphery resulting from altered subcortical gating. We conclude that TS patients exhibit altered sensory-motor processing involved in voluntary movement control, which might also be successful in tic control.

Neuroimage. 2012 Oct 15;63(1):119-25. Epub 2012 Jul 6. Biermann-Ruben K, Miller A, Franzkowiak S, Finis J, Pollok B, Wach C, Südmeyer M, Jonas M, Thomalla G, Müller-Vahl K, Münchau A, Schnitzler A. Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Full title: Tension Tamer: Delivering Meditation With Objective Heart Rate Acquisition for Adherence Monitoring Using a Smart Phone Platform.

Abstract Objectives: This brief report demonstrates the proof of concept of the Tension Tamer (TT) smartphone application, which integrates photoplethysmograph capabilities with breathing awareness meditation (BAM), to reduce stress and measure heart rate and adherence. Design: Methods for objectively measuring heart rate and adherence to BAM were developed as part of a future randomized controlled trial. Setting/Location: The study was conducted at Jerry Zucker Middle School of Science and the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. Subjects: The subjects were three prehypertensive male teachers. Intervention: The method used was smartphone delivered BAM. Outcome measures: Objective measures included heart rate, adherence, and ambulatory blood pressure (BP). Results: Adherence data was successfully collected by the TT application. Increased adherence to TT coincided with increased improvements in ambulatory BP over a 3-month period. Conclusions: TT shows promise as a simple inexpensive program for administering BAM and capturing adherence data in future clinical trials.

J Altern Complement Med. 2012 Sep 11. Gregoski MJ, Vertegel A, Shaporev A, Treiber FA. 1 Center of Economic Excellence Technology Applications Center for Healthful Lifestyles (TACHL), Medical University of South Carolina , Charleston, South Carolina.