Psychosomatic medicine
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Psychosomatic medicine · Feb 2007
Randomized Controlled TrialEffects of age on responsiveness to adjunct hypnotic analgesia during invasive medical procedures.
To assess the effects of age on responsiveness to self-hypnotic relaxation as an analgesic adjunct in patients undergoing invasive medical procedures. ⋯ Older patients are hypnotizable and increasing age does not appear to mitigate the usefulness of hypnotic analgesia during invasive medical procedures.