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Dentaltown Learning Online....Rapid Hypnotic Techniques for Drug-Free Management of Pain and Anxiety. By Elvira V. Lang, MD, PhD

Dentaltown Learning Online....Rapid Hypnotic Techniques for Drug-Free Management of Pain and Anxiety. By Elvira V. Lang, MD, PhD

4/14/2021 8:44:08 AM   |   Comments: 0   |   Views: 81
Dentaltown is pleased to present....Rapid Hypnotic Techniques for Drug-Free Management of Pain and Anxiety. By Elvira V. Lang, MD, PhD.
This CE course can be found here.
https://www.dentaltown.com/onlinece/details/1048/rapid-hypnotic-techniques-for-drug-free-management-of-pain-and-anxiety

For a limited time, this CE course can be viewed at no cost due to the Sponsorship of Rectangle Health.




This course helps dental practitioners reduce patient anxiety and pain through advanced rapid rapport skills, awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues, correct use of suggestions, and the reframing of distressing thoughts and pain by hypnotic language. 


Based on extensive clinical trials and clinic practice, this presentation builds on 25 years of experience with nonpharmacologic means of managing patient anxiety and pain in busy healthcare environments. It documents the effects of unaddressed anxiety on pain, the interconnected experience of the patient and dental practitioner’s stress, and the economic ramifications. It addresses how the natural upward trend of pain and anxiety during these encounters can be avoided, and the patient experience improved by slight, but reflective, changes in provider behavior and use of language. The audience will learn how to build rapport with their patients instantly, elicit positive behaviors and cooperation from them and their accompanying individuals. Listeners will be introduced to the powers of word choice, how they can avoid the adverse effects of negative suggestions, reframe distressing thoughts, fears, and worries, and moderate the effect of painful stimuli. Rapid hypnotic techniques will be described and demonstrated with a sample script. The specifics of language providing anxiety release and relaxation in the office, as well as those needed for additional pain relief, will be discussed and supplemented with findings from a recent clinical trial at Tufts Dental School.

Elvira V. Lang, MD, PhD, is an award-winning interventional radiologist known for research on the clinical effectiveness and cost savings of pre and intraprocedural nonpharmacologic analgesia adjuncts in the medical and dental domains. Founder and CEO of Comfort Talk®, she has held faculty positions at the University of Heidelberg, Stanford, Iowa, and the Harvard Medical School. In large-scale clinical trials, she demonstrated that staff training in advanced rapport and communication skills reduces pain, anxiety, drug needs, and complications in procedures, as well as improves patient throughput, efficiency, and the patient experience. 
Through her publications and efforts as Past President of the New England Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis she has promoted to include training in hypnosis for frontline medical/dental healthcare professionals within the scope of their practice. Her research work has been acknowledged with the Ernest R. Hilgard Award for Scientific Excellence for a Lifetime of Published Experimental Work by the International Society of Clinical Hypnosis. After having co-authored the book Patient Sedation Without Medication for healthcare professionals she wrote Managing Your Medical Experience for patients’ use. Dr. Lang has been featured extensively in the popular press and on television.  

 
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