
25/08/2025
Hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are the most effective treatments for children suffering with unexplained abdominal pain, according to new research published today in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Photo by olga Volkovitskaia on Pexels.com The findings found that hypnotherapy is 68% more successful and CBT 35% more successful than taking no action. This was compared with pharmacological treatments such as Buspirone or Tricyclics, different drugs prescribed to treat anxiety, or antispasmodic drugs, used to reduce spasmodic pain, which showed a very low level of certainty for treatment success, not allowing any conclusions to be made....
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Hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are the most effective treatments for children suffering with unexplained abdominal pain, according to new research published today in The Lancet…