Lynette Bear is a certified registered nurse anesthetist at the Laser Spine Institute ambulatory surgery center in Philadelphia, where she provides anesthesia for minimally invasive spine surgery. Ms.

Would you consider hypnosis instead of anesthesia in the operating room? MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is exploring hypnosis as an alternative for some surgeries that involves patients being ...

Mr. Dick, a psychologist, was administered nerve blockers but chose to rely on self-hypnosis during his knee replacement. He avoided general anesthesia during the procedure to sidestep potential side ...

Anaesthesiologists have found that using a combination of hypnosis and local anaesthesia (LA) in surgery where LA is feasible but, not on its own, sufficient to ensure patient comfort, can aid healing ...

Bob Dick recently toughed his way through a 90-minute total knee replacement without the aid of anesthesia, choosing to stay awake through the chisel and the buzz of the electric saw. When he reached ...

Bob Dick recently toughed his way through a 90-minute total knee replacement without the aid of anesthesia, choosing to stay awake through the chisel and the buzz of the electric saw. When he reached ...

LONDON – As the surgeons cut into her neck, Marianne Marquis was thinking of the beach. As she heard the doctors’ voices, she was imagining her toes in the sand, the water lapping. Marquis had been ...

Doctors are using hypnosis instead of anesthesia to keep patients calm during some surgeries in an effort to reduce the use of addictive and dangerous drugs. A team of cross-disciplinary doctors at MD ...

When renowned surgeon John Collins Warren announced to an enraptured audience that the use of anesthesia was “no humbug” in the first-ever public demonstration of the technique, 170 years ago, he was ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A new clinical study at MD Anderson Cancer Center is using hypnosedation as a replacement for general anesthesia on early stage breast cancer patients. Patients would still ...

Hypnosis, once the stuff of parlor tricks, is being taken seriously by a growing number of medical experts. Not only can clinical hypnosis help to treat some diseases and health conditions, but it's ...