Arthritis patients who are optimistic that an upcoming hip or knee replacement operation is going to remedy their pain are actually more likely to get better relief than patients with low expectations about what surgery can do for them.
If you come in with a positive attitude, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
Investigators studied 103 patients who underwent total hip replacement surgery and another 89 who had a knee replacement. Before surgery, participants completed questionnaires about their overall health, physical functioning, level of pain, and expectations about treatment. They were questioned again about their health 6 months after surgery.
Overall, patients experienced significantly less pain and better physical functioning after surgery. But the three quarters of patients who expected complete pain relief following their operation reported less pain and better functioning 6 months after surgery than their counterparts with lower expectations.
In fact, patient expectations were the second most important determinant of outcomes after surgery, the report indicates. The biggest predictor of success was a patient's pre-operative health status.
Journal of Rheumatology June 2002;29:1273-1279
This is another powerful testimony to the power of your mind in helping your body to heal. Whatever you focus your conscious attention on in the real world will typically be achieved - and that forms the basis of EFT. You can easily begin to harness the power of EFT by reviewing my free manual. There are also clinicians who can help you individually.
Sometimes there are, however, structural problems that limit EFT from working, as in certain cases of inflammation from arthritis. When that happens, I find that following the eating plan with special attention to the fish oil will help the inflammation that accompanies arthritis.
The above study was focused on hip and knee surgery. In my office, instead of surgery, we employ a gentle massage technique from Australia called NST that has proved highly effective for the associated problems. We have rarely found the need to refer any patients for surgical intervention.
NST helps the body actually repair and recover the damaged tissue. If you are interested in this procedure, please refer to our list of NST practitioners. And health care professionals should consider attending our NST training course in September -- taught by a pioneer in the field and the last NST course available in the United States this year.
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