Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation of the neurologically damaged individual is primarily a relearning process. Such patients may have intellectual and emotional difficulties and are easily distracted and fatigued. A pervading depression, aggravated by a low frustration tolerance and poor motivation, frequently precludes assistance from any type of physical rehabilitation regimen.

Musculoskeletal, and psychological functioning may be further affected by the metabolic and negative conditioning resulting from lack of use of affected area's. Passive and active resistive exercises to improve the motor power may be accelerated and enhanced with the application of hypnosis, especially if directed toward more optimistic attitudes toward the self and the physical impairment. A greater attention span results from narrowing of the perceptual fields during hypnosis. In this respect, music that is hypnotic in type limits and controls sensory input and often improves muscular control.

Unfortunately, psychotherapy is seldom employed in the patient with central nervous system involvement with enough vigor and thoroughness. If permissive techniques oriented around the needs of the patient are used, critical attitudes are seldom mobilized. With sensory-imagery conditioning during autohypnosis, greater psychological responses are obtained. The reflexes achieved by learning and conditioning techniques are not as readily extinguished as those induced at non-hypnotic levels.

Hypnosis facilitates considerable associative learning and increases the capacity for stimulus transference. This may account for the increased effectiveness of neuromuscular re-education under hypnosis. Hypnosis is only a medium through which a wide variety of other therapeutic and pharmacological procedures may be potentiated.

In conclusion to all above, it is important to note that patients are not treated by hypnosis, but rather in the state of hypnosis. Its function is to catalyze the behavior dynamics associated with motivation, perception, and the broad spectrum of other healthful emotional reactions. Any rehabilitation program can be accomplished best through a knowledge of the reciprocal action of mind and body – that is, the comprehensive approach.

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