An Involuntary Tics Can Be Suppressed Through Self-Hypnosis

An Involuntary Tics Can Be Suppressed Through Self-Hypnosis.
Children and infantile adults with Tourette syndrome can move further control over their involuntary tics through self-hypnosis, a puny new study suggests. But a specialist in the condition said the research is too preliminary to hint whether the strategy actually works. In the study, reported in the July/August issue of the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, researchers in use a video to teach 33 people grey 6 to 19 how to relax through self-hypnosis.

The participants all had the tics caused by Tourette syndrome. "Once the passive is in his or her highly focused 'special place,' work is then done on controlling the tic. We demand the patient to imagine the feeling right before that tic occurs and to put up a stop sign in front of it, or to fancy a tic switch that can be turned on and off like a light switch," study co-author Dr Jeffrey Lazarus, when the world was young of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and now in undisclosed practice, said in a news release from the journal's publisher.

Of the participants, 26 (79 percent) qualified what the researchers called a dramatic increase in their ability to control their tics after two to four sessions. In an interview, Tourette master and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee psychology professor Douglas W Woods said other factors as well as the hypnosis training could explain the improvement in the patients. In many cases, tics go away on their own, he said.

Other strategies as well the "wait and see" proposition include medications and therapy designed to teach patients how to control their tics, Woods said. He co-authored a modern study that showed the value of that technique, known as comprehensive behavioral intervention for tics wheretobuyrx. "Maybe hypnosis could be shown to be impressive in treating tics down the road, but I don't deliberate this study does that," Woods stated.