Though surgeries itself are difficult for the patients but post surgery phase i. e. the healing phase from the surgery is definitely tougher than the former one. And thus, to ease the situation for many, Belgium researchers have recently found that hypnosis and local anesthesia, if combined and introduced to the patient in the latter phase, can serve the patient with an easier as well as faster healing process.

The study had been presented by the researchers on Sunday at the European Anesthesiology Congress in Amsterdam, where the researchers used the combination of hypnosis and local anesthesia on the patients, who had breast cancer surgery and in thyroidectomy (removal of all or part of the thyroid gland).

To carry on the study over the breast cancer patients, 18 out of 78 women were hypnotized and the others were given general anesthesia. It was found by the researchers that the patients, who were hypnotized and were given local anesthesia though spent a few minutes more in the operating theatre but the drug use greatly diminished their recovery room time and hospital stay.

The same results were also seen during the thyroid study as the researchers found that the 18 patients, who were in the hypnosis and local anesthesia group recovered early than the 36, who had general anesthetic.

Post seeing the results of the studies, Researcher Fabienne Roelants said, "In all of these procedures local anesthesia is feasible but not, on its own, sufficient to ensure patient comfort”.