Pain is a necessary and functional awareness created by the brain. Eventually, strong memories of pain are created so future pain may be easier to feel because the message gets through more quickly.  Clinical hypnotherapy can help break that memory pattern.  As we all experience pain differently, so too we all react diferently to pain sensations and certainly our past experiences influence our perception  of pain.  Pain is a warning, but if it persits beyond the time when it is reasonably functional for healing of an injury or an illnes to end it, it may become chronic and can be viewed as a condition in its own right.

Chronic pain hangs on after the injury is healed and is generally described as chronic when it lasts 6 months or longer and may not have a known origin.

Hypnotherapy can be very helpful for helping patients deal with pain by producing and developing states of relaxation, helping to overcome insomnia and other related problems and by providing pain relief.