Dr. Roberta's Holistic Method

Your Consultation CD permits you to take control of your emotions before, during, and after surgery

It’s best to listen to your consultation CD several times before your operation, and be sure to listen the day before the surgery.  You will be amazed at the change in your attitude.

Think About It:

Would you take a pill that promised to speed you through surgery?

Would you take a pill that had been tested on hundreds of surgical patients?

What if there were proof that this pill helped patients maintain stable vital signs during their operation -  no sudden high or low blood pressure?

What if there were proof that this pill helped patients need far fewer pain medications – sometimes even none?

What if there were proof that surgeons were able to complete the operation quicker in the patients who had taken the pill than in other patients?

Of course you would take this pill.

If such a pill actually existed we would all know about it.  The pharmaceutical companies would proudly advertise it on television, in newspapers, in magazines. If there were such a pill every HMO, every insurance company, every hospital, would insist all patients take it. Patients would have a better experience and the companies would save money on medications and on time spent in the operating room and in the hospital. Although this pill has not yet been developed, there is something that has been proved, in rigorous clinical trials, to provide all the effects and benefits stated above. That something is medical hypnosis!

In the April 29, 2000 edition of the scholarly medical journal, The Lancet, Dr. Elvira Lang of Harvard University published her study of clinical trials using hypnosis before surgery. People who had been hypnotized prior to surgery needed less pain medication, left the operating room sooner, and had more stable vital signs during their operation. Dr. Carol Ginandes has published her findings proving that hypnotized patients have quicker bone healings. Children have been studied, too. In one study, twenty-six children were hypnotized before surgery, and twenty-six others, who were the same age and having the same surgery, were not hypnotized. Those in the hypnosis group were given the hypnotic suggestion that they would recover easily and quickly.

After all the children were recovered it was determined that the kids who had been hypnotized had less pain, needed fewer pain killers, and went home days earlier than those in the non-hypnosis group. Both before and after the surgery those in the hypnosis group were calm, while those in the other group were anxious. (This study was done by Sally Lambert at the Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.) And the list goes on and on. So, why haven’t you heard about the value of pre-surgical hypnosis?

Here’s the reason: the drug companies and the insurance companies, who are the only business groups that could afford such advertising, make no money from hypnosis – after all, hypnosis is words, not pills. There is no incentive for such companies to invest in advertising hypnosis. And hypnotists, who are individual professional practitioners, are not in financial positions to conduct a sweeping advertising campaign.