The specialist explained that “this is false, and is never something that gives us limited. Yet, we must clarify that there are dozens of books with a sustained academic quality and, moreover, that those who work with this technique must have proper training.”

Regarding their advantages or disadvantages compared with other techniques, Dr. Valadez Nava says that every school psychotherapy and its tools have a method that is well learned if adequate results, be it psychoanalysis, Gestalt model or systemic family therapy, but believes that “through hypnosis ensure the same results in less time. I’ve seen people with phobias of 10 or 15 who willingly eradicated their problem in a couple of sessions.”

This effect is also relative, since the specialist has found that when a person is willing to undertake changes resolve your problem quickly, but when there is distrust and patients go to “qualify” his therapist delay times, this may be due that people are afraid because they do not know what will happen, “think they might fall asleep and never wake up, or who may suffer sexual abuse, despite this, these situations are well fought with a well-trained” .

A further problem arises when you used to book or Internet to apply hypnosis or hypnosis, as well as these resources are not well developed, there is no experience to lead the state of trance. Whoever does this does not cause harm, but will get very poor results.

So people who want to come to hypnosis and / or work through this technique should find someone with experience in psychotherapy, psychology, medicine or science in the area of ??health, for example, and that has adequate training in time a course of 10 or 30 hours (the diploma course conducted by Dr. Sabas Valadez lasts 180 hours). In this regard, he said that hypnotism does not kill or ill, with it, rather, “you get a change or no avail, but there is no negative effect, what can happen is that someone without knowledge of the patient emotionally hurt.”

He cites the case of a man with emotional problems because of his divorce, he was mesmerized by his mother in order to ease their discomfort. Once achieved the trance, the woman asked her offspring to “bury” that it was a problem for him, but instead of achieving peace of mind the man began to mourn and feel bad, outside of hypnosis told her mother that the reason their pain was the separation from his daughter (she had requested), so that poor management led him to take the mental picture of your small and bury. It is to imagine that their conflict was not resolved in this way.

Finally, take into account that not all problems found solutions through this tool. The hypnotherapist comes to the example of a man who beats his partner, in which hypnosis can deal with the anger of women, but not the problem of violence, for it would have to resort to couples therapy. Thus, a responsible therapist will first determine the characteristics of each person and their problem and then choose the right tool to the case.

Necessary to create rules

Dr. Valadez Nava says that along with other specialists seeks to create an official standard for the exercise of this tool is only for skilled people, however, the interests of some schools have been arrested so far the initiative, because to the current situation is best for them: they can train anyone without restrictions and benefit monetarily.

He adds that although many experts believe that hypnosis is a synonym for quackery, to learn and apply the technique eliminates many doubts and it is understood that what happens during a therapy of this type is a natural process that has nothing magical, fantastic or supernatural.

Therefore, Sabas Valadez believes that hypnotism is just one of the more than 250 existing psychotherapeutic tools, not a panacea or “most wonderful magic that does it all”, but because they chose their own experience and that of their students academics have reached the same conclusion: “The person who is well trained is allowed first to discover within themselves what can be achieved through self-hypnosis and from that point know what they can do do for others.”

He adds: “We always find a method that is kind and helpful, but not a miracle nor used to influence another, the hypnosis is more of a relationship between two people where the therapist is only a guide for the subject to attend therapy if you wish, you can find an answer, understand a situation or process in your life and embracing change.”

Finally, the hypnotherapist says the future of this tool is very promising, since according to a publication of the University of Nancy, France (1999), 98% of diseases have any mental origin, so that may be Hypnosis can help by not only people with depression, phobias and night terrors, but also those with circulation problems, blood pressure, vision, what will make these problems easier to handle.

Therefore, in conclusion quoted the words of Joseph Ugalde, one of his teachers: “The hypnotism cures everything… well, almost everything, so that others do not get angry.”

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Without being a cure for all ills, hypnotherapy is a technique that offers rapid therapeutic results without causing damage, however, requires training and a standard to prevent misuse by charlatans and opportunists.

Popularly identified with this technique as a magic trick by which colorful character takes over the will of one or more individuals to run them luck imaginable. This image is false, and that hypnosis is actually a path used not only for psychological treatment, but for self-healing.

According to Dr. Sabas Valadez Nava, Chair of the School of Advanced Studies Iztacala (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and responsible for the Diploma in Hypnotherapy Eclectic on that campus, this technique is handled more than 6000 years, “The Egyptians gave his pharaoh and priests the power to determine by a simple touch someone healed or not, and such was his influence on the people who managed to cure,” he says in an interview.

Despite their age, stage hypnotism has lived boom and recession, so that progress, though steady, has been repeatedly covered up. Thus, we can locate the start of its modern era in the nineteenth century, from the work of Scottish physician James Braid, who hypnotized to perform war-wounded amputees, so that intervened successfully without anesthesia or antibiotics.

How does hypnotism?

Dr. Valadez Nava, behavior modification teacher says that hypnotism allows access to a different state of consciousness or altered which is achieved through verbalization or oral guidance that makes the therapist for the patient to focus their attention on inside of himself and forget about external elements, which allows “the patient’s consciousness, we can say that is hosted in the left hemisphere of the brain is busy on a task that we are giving, while our right half, which is tentatively believe that our subconscious solves your problem you are having.”

The state of hypnosis can be of greater or lesser depth, and for that you can use relaxation techniques, however, always allows the subject to search, find and decide what will happen. “It seems that the subject is asleep, but not true, what happens is that the brain is more attentive because they do not watch our other features.”

Nava Valadez says that this tool is useful for many people, so that the graduate who runs trains dentists, nurses, doctors, homeopaths, psychologists and even mathematicians, lawyers, engineers and mothers, or groups responsible for Neurotics Anonymous and Alcoholics and support to women experiencing domestic violence or rape.

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- Diagnosis and therapy go hand in hand, as both felt that the specialist areas of the body performs pressures, so that determines the type of illness and healing takes place at a time.
- The treatment is strictly manual, and requires no drugs, mechanical or electrical stimulation.
- No side effects or muscle soreness after the session.
- Although the problem is located in an organ, the treatment can be performed in different parts of the body to help the energy flow around a meridian.
- You can apply at any age, from children to seniors.
- It is said that the shiatsu practiced regularly helps prevent disease and that the cure rates are high when there is a bond of trust between therapist and patient, hence, should not continue this therapy if there is discomfort either party.

Although every follower of shiatsu brings particular knowledge of technique, each condition requires the implementation of acupressure on a certain body area, for example:
Head. It is useful to treat migraine, insomnia, alopecia and neuralgia (pain continued along the nerves).

Cara. Applies in cases of hyperopia (difficulty seeing close objects), strabismus (eye muscle weakness that causes ocular deviation of the axes), sinusitis (inflammation of the sinuses), toothache and some neuralgias.

Upper back (between the shoulder blades). It is indicated in cases of asthma, respiratory diseases, liver and heart disorders.

Below the shoulder blades. Suitable for diabetes, kidney ailments, constipation, diarrhea, lumbago (pain in lower back) disc herniation and bed-wetting.

Upper edge of the ilium (pelvis). Ideal for constipation, intestinal disorders and lumbago.

Buttocks. To address sciatica, cooling, hemorrhoids and frigidity (no sex drive).

Legs. Help sciatica problems, tired legs, sore knees, fluid accumulation in the lower limbs, cramps, rheumatism and deformities of the feet.

Arms. Heart disease is common in some rheumatic diseases and problems with nerves in arms, hands and face.

Chest region. Offers improvement in bronchial asthma and heart disease, as well as stimulates the production of milk per feeding.

Abdominal region. Appropriate in cases of loss of appetite, yawning, liver disorders, hypertension and hypotension, gastritis, obesity and erectile dysfunction (impotence).

It should also be noted that this therapy is not effective in infectious diseases, inflammation of the membranes covering lungs and chest cavity (pleurisy) or abdominal organs (peritonitis), ulceration of the digestive system (peptic or duodenal) and liver cirrhosis.

There is no indication in the case of leukemia, cancer, stomach cramps, intestinal obstruction, extreme physical weakness, skin infections, appendix, pancreas inflammation and high fever after surgery.

Finally, try to make sure that the therapist who attends is properly trained and remember that shiatsu is not opposed to other therapies or replace doctor visits, so do not trust those who seek to influence or control over you through of their knowledge.

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Like acupuncture, reflexology, shiatsu is a technique that holds that our body has a series of “clues” or meridians through which circulate subtle and invisible energies that give us vitality and adequate health status, reason any blockage of these forces is manifested as muscle pain and, subsequently, can cause disease in various organs.

To achieve its objective, this therapy, whose name in Japanese means “finger pressure” (shi means “finger” and atsu “pressure”) uses the work of a qualified person by rotation movements, stretching and pressure to specific points on the body manages to restore its balance and wellbeing.

Tradition and Innovation

It says that the creator of this therapy was Tokujiro Namikoshi Japanese, who was born in the early twentieth century and went on to study medicine and different massage techniques after noticing that her mother successfully healed the many ailments he suffered in joints (polyarthritis rheumatoid arthritis) due to friction and pressure that performed soft hands.

Thus, Namikoshi joined the empirical knowledge from the ancient practices of oriental medicine for its peculiar shape acupressure technique, same as the task to spread through the Shiatsu Therapy Institute, founded in 1925. The school won recognition from the Japanese government in 1957, and currently teaches courses in two years to learn this type of massage.

According to its creator, shiatsu is “a manual therapy technique and digital skin to prevent and cure diseases by stimulating the natural powers of recovery that has the body, eliminating those elements that cause fatigue and promote good overall health. ”

Therefore, say its supporters, it is an effective therapy to fight illness, depression, headaches, sleep disturbances, nervousness, menstrual problems, allergies, asthma and many other conditions, for complete relief requires several sessions, but has improved since the first practice.

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Thus, Japanese scientists from Tokyo University are developing tools that can “feel” the shape and texture of objects they touch. These new advances in haptics (the scientific study of touch) could revolutionize surgery. To demonstrate the potential of their technology-Smart Tool, the researchers used a glass which is superimposed a layer of oil and water layer. While the distinction is impossible to touch, stylus-Smart Tool enabled to distinguish the two environments. The experiment could be repeated with boiled eggs, the stylus distinguishing yellow white. Imagine the possibilities of surgical scalpels allegedly equipped with this technology.

In France it is important to note the remarkable work done by the Team Virtual Institute for Research against Cancer of the Digestive System (IRCAD) who helped develop a new technique for detection and automated delineation of liver tumors from 3 mm thick. This system not only detects lesions from 3 mm thick with an accuracy less than a millimeter, but it also allows a significant improvement in surgical procedures through the provision of 3D reconstruction of the patient before and during the operation. These tools of medical image processing, can also automatically reconstruct a 3D virtual patient, copy of the real patient.

A thorough physical examination and a complete medical history are the two key elements for diagnosis. Physical examination will show the location of trigger points and the local response of the taut muscular band. There are usually no neurological deficits or abnormalities in laboratory tests hematological, biochemical or urinary tract, unless there are concomitant diseases such as nutritional or metabolic disorders. Electromyography will show an increase in spontaneous electrical activity at trigger points. X-rays or MRI reveal no pathological changes in the affected muscle or connective tissue. However, these muscles may show altered patterns of increasing their fatigue, stiffness, subjective weakness, pain on movement and slight decrease in range of motion. Furthermore generate pain when undergoing stretching, forcing the patient to avoid such postures and exercises to maintain muscle contractions greater movement restriction condition. It may be possible to use ultrasound to visualize the spasmodic response by stimulating the trigger point, and thermography, to show areas of increased skin temperature in the region of the trigger points.

The algometers are used to quantify the sensitivity of muscle pressure on one point. Are applied perpendicular to the zone of maximum sensitivity. The pressure threshold is the minimum amount of pressure that induces pain. It is considered abnormal if there is a difference of less than 2 kg cm2-1, involved in a normal control point, usually measured on the opposite side.

To understand the origin of myofascial pain is necessary to understand two concepts: muscle tightness and trigger points (trigger points). Muscle tension is the product of two distinct factors: the tone vis-coelástico and contractile activity. The tone-lastic viscoe can be divided into two parts, the viscoelastic stiffness and elastic stiffness. The elastic stiffness is generated based on the movement, while memory foam is made in terms of speed. Contractile activity consists of three types: contracture, spasm electrogenic (pathological) and stiffness electrogenic. Contracture and electromyographic recording does not originate inside the muscle fibers. Electrogenic spasm is an involuntary muscle contraction caused pathological alpha motor neurons in the motor endplate. Electrogenic Rigidity refers to muscle tension resulting from muscle contraction in individuals who are not relaxed.

The trigger point or “trigger point” is a source of irritability in the muscle when it is deformed by pressure, stretch or contraction, which produces both a point of local pain and referred pain pattern. These trigger points can be classified into:

• Assets: when they are the direct cause of pain.
• Latent: cause dysfunction when performing certain maneuvers but not muscle pain on palpation. They are the most common and can remain dormant for long, becoming active under stress, overuse, stretching, etc.
• Parents: no underlying cause that occurs.
• Children: a nerve entrapment, radiculopathy, and so on.
• Satellites: when the trigger point remains too long without treatment and undertake adjacent structures.

Muscle pain may be associated with trigger points, muscle tension increases or combinations thereof. Myofascial syndrome is defined by the presence of trigger points, while tension headache and temporomandibular joint disorders are associated with them and increased muscle tone.

Another characteristic of myofascial pain is the presence of a palpable muscular band representing a segmental spasm of a small portion of the muscle. This band is not visible but can be appreciated by palpation after exploration of the affected muscle.

Finally, the third component of myofascial pain is referred pain, which has this name because it originates in the trigger point but is perceived distance. Can be confused with radicular pain, but usually does not follow the distribution of a nerve, or displays associated sensory or motor deficits.

The pain is usually constant, deep and dull. Sometimes they may have hyperalgesia and / or Alodia-many resembling paresthesias, requiring differential diagnosis of neuropathic pain.

Patients suffering from myofascial syndrome also accuse symptoms such as sleep disorders and weakness. Autonomic phenomena may also occur in areas of referred pain radiating as vasoconstriction, sweating and pilomotor activity.

Family therapy looks at the child or adolescent in its interactions with various family members. It seeks to understand what suffering can mean.
Indeed, in some cases, the symptoms presented by a young patient can be regarded as suggestive of a dysfunction in the parent / children, brothers / sisters. It may be paradoxical communications (which contradict or cancel out), the unspoken, false beliefs or misunderstandings between them, resistance to change.
The family does not thereby become a patient that is sought to cure or regulate. It is rather seen as a system that is to decipher.
The update malaise family’s priority is to relieve the suffering child, but it ultimately allows each of its members to better breathing.
Attention family therapy never leads to the indictment of an individual in the family. Rather, when properly conducted, it has the effect of erasing the exclusion mechanisms possibly at work in the inner circle.