Hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome: an audit of one thousand adult patients

Gut-focused hypnotherapy improves the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with benefits being sustained for many years. Despite this, the technique has not been widely adopted by healthcare systems, possibly due to relatively small numbers in published studies and uncertainty about how it should be provided.To review the effect of hypnotherapy in a large cohort of refractory IBS patients.One thousand IBS patients fulfilling Rome II...