Hello Incompra,
I?m glad to say ?Yes and Yes!? to both of your questions.
Yes, these tapes/CDs DO exist, but there is not a lot of variety.
Yes, research has shown that they are beneficial! The one turns up
most in my search, and appears to be highly recommended is the first
one in my answer. The rest are in no particular order.
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Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster: Relaxation/Healing Process
[ABRIDGED] (Audio Cassette) $9.95
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964575736/104-5382951-3053565?v=glance&n=283155
Read customer reviews here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0964575736/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt/104-5382951-3053565?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
More on the same series:
?Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster
A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques by Peggy Huddleston
?Research at Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals has documented that
using this CD significantly reduced anxiety.
Use the Relaxation/Healing CD to Prepare for Surgery If you are facing
surgery, listen to this CD 20-minutes twice a day before and after
surgery to reduce anxiety, feel calmer and speed your healing.
Also listen to the 2nd CD in the package, an Instructional CD. It is a
one-hour interview with Peggy Huddleston explaining her five steps to
prepare for surgery.?
https://www.irnoise.com/hforder.html
and more:
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/news/viewarticle/1,1513,1228,00.html
NYU supports the ?Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster? series! If you
live in NYC, you can attend a workshop as well!
http://www.med.nyu.edu/surgery/prepare/
?Peggy Huddleston?s pre-surgical program is recommended at leading
hospitals, including Brigham and Women?s Hospital in Boston, NYU
Medical Center in New York City and several Kaiser Permanente Medical
Centers in California.
She will be in Chicago July 24-25 to give her 2-day training, which
enables participants to give a one-hour workshop based on her book for
people facing surgery and/or chemotherapy. The training is appropriate
for individuals and health care professionals. For further information
or to order her book and/or Relaxation/Healing tape, call 800.726.4173
or visit her Web site: www.HealFaster.com .?
http://www.yogachicago.com/jul04/surgeryprep.shtml
?An impressive body of medical research documents that people who
actively prepare for an operation have less pain, fewer complications
and recover sooner. While most of this research had been buried in
medical journals and reports, this book now makes it available to you.
As a psychotherapist and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, my
clinical work, research and studies have focused on how people can use
their emotions, attitudes and human spirits to enhance the healing
process. Over the past 18 years, I have taught workshops in
self-healing techniques to more than 6,000 people in Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, London, Paris and Amsterdam.
Often in workshops someone will ask, "I am having surgery in a few
weeks. What can I do to reduce my anxiety and make surgery less
stressful? How can I have less pain and heal faster?" In response, I
developed five steps to prepare people for surgery. They give you
specific ways to feel more in control at a time you can often feel
helpless and vulnerable. They are easy to use, cost you and the
hospital nothing, and have no negative side effects.?
http://www.healfaster.com/intro.html
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Surgical Support Series -- 6 CDs
$99 + S&H CD Series 6 CDs + manual + case
?Ease the experience of illness, injury, surgery, chemotherapy, dental
treatment, and other physical trauma. This album's effectiveness has
been demonstrated in major hospitals and clinics. The reported
benefits include: reduced anxiety; stabilized blood pressure,
minimized need for anesthesia and pain medication, and quicker
recuperation. Pre-Op, Intra-Op and Recovery are for use before,
during and immediately after treatment. Recuperation, Energy Walk,
and Surf (also Energy Walk and Surf available on single CDs) foster
healing and support wellness. Guidance Manual included.?
"Over the years we have used The Surgical Support Series for many
types of surgical procedures with great success. Our goal in the
Merritt Hospital project is to produce scientific results that can
place this as an adjunct to the mainstream of surgical procedures".
Arthur Gladman, MD, Oakland, CA."
**The Monroe Institute and Interstate Industries, Inc. are not medical
or therapeutic organizations. The Surgical Support Series is
recommended for use with the knowledge, cooperation and/or
participation of the patient's health care practitioners.?
?Surgery: Play Pre-Op as many times as possible prior to surgery,
both before and after admission to the hospital. Allow the patient to
sleep as long as she/he can after each playing. If pain occurs, or
sleep or pre-op medication is given, play the exercise immediately
thereafter. Switch to Intra-Op (Exercise 2) just before entering the
operating room.? http://www.new-mind.com/HemiSyncSurgicalSupport/hemisyncsurgicaltapescdpreandpostoperationandprocedures.htm
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Pre and Post Surgical Success with Hypnosis
$19.95
?Being Part of the Total Solutions for Your Healing (Pre Surgical)
The American Medical Association placed it?s qualified stamp of
approval on the various medical uses of hypnosis in 1958.
This inner process will assist you in conscious participation in
maintaining your blood pressure, bleeding and breathing at optimal
levels during surgery. Suggestion for releasing fear, anxiety, or
abrupt reactions and avoiding nausea are also given. You become an
important, healing aspect of all the solutions during your surgery !
(Post Surgical) Accelerated healing and proper functioning of all your
body processes are emphasized. Taking relaxing and pleasant time for
your healing, noticing the sensations of the healing process and
honoring your wondrous healing abilities. You become an important part
of the solutions during your recovery! Iris Barratt is a qualified
certified clinical hypnotherapist with over 10 years experience.?
http://www.wellnessgoods.com/ib7.asp
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??I regularly use Mr. Glenn Harrold's tapes with pre-surgical
patients. The marked improvements in overall recovery have been
astounding. It has been noted by attending surgeons' and
anaesthesiologists' that surgical patients having used pre and post-
surgical conditioning with Glenn Harrold's positive reinforcement
tapes, have faster and more positive results than those patients not
having used this technique. Thank you Glenn for your valuable
contribution to the healing arts.? Autumn J. Patrick - Certified
Clinical Hypnotherapist.? There are many tapes listed on this site.
Hypno-Tech Hypnosis Research and Development San Luis Obispo, California, U.S.A.?
http://www.hypnosisaudio.com/testimonials.htm
Heal Your Body
http://www.hypnosisaudio.com/tape10.htm
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Referring to a technique found on this page:
?You can relax very well by following these directions. Some people
prefer to have this on tape so they can just lean back and let someone
else remind them of relaxing thoughts.
I recommend the relaxation tape that I made for this purpose.
Click here for Relaxation and Healing Tapes and CDs
If you like affirmations, the surgery tape begins with the same
relaxation messages and then adds affirmations appropriate for
surgery.
Click here for Relaxation and Healing Tapes and CDs with affirmations for surgery?
http://alternatives4arthritis.com/surgrelx.html
Another page on the same site:
http://alternatives4arthritis.com/surgery.html
The site above recommends this tape/CD $14.95 USD:
http://www.tapesforhealing.com/relax.html
http://www.tapesforhealing.com/relax.html
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Pre Post Surgical
$19.95
On the night prior to surgery, you sleep soundly, without any anxiety.
You enter surgery in a peaceful state of mind. You come out of surgery
with little to no discomfort. Your body is relaxed and starting to
heal. Recuperation time is at a minimum. .Hypnosis. Tape or CD
http://www.longislandhypnosis.com/page17.html
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Successful Surgery (2-tape set)
Tape One is designed to help imagine a successful surgery experience,
surrounded by protection, the body slowing down blood flow and
speeding up its mending capacity. Tape Two has continuous music to be
taken into the operating room. (74 minutes)
http://www.columbiasurgery.org/cimp/audio.html
Pre and Post Surgical Self Hypnosis CD - Healing Fast with No Fear or Anxiety
$19.95 USD + S&H
?I used this recording when I was admitted to the hospital for surgery
and not only felt calm and relaxed, but the surgery went exactly as I
had progected and visualized. The CD gives the most positive
suggestions for perfect healing now for the subconscious mind does not
know about tomorrow as it lives only in present time. It is only the
conscious mind that perceives linear time and does not do much to make
powerful change. That is the powerful inner mind which takes in these
suggestions and makes them real for you so you completely feel
comfortable safe, peaceful and healed in the here and now.?
You can listen to a snippet on this site!
http://www.hypnosiscures.net/presurgery.html
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Successful Surgery Health Journeys
$19.98
?Designed to help mind and body anticipate a successful surgery
experience, surrounded by protection and support, the body slowing
down blood flow and speeding up its mending capacity. Affirmations are
geared for post surgical recovery, and the continuous music that
scored the imagery is for use in the operating room.
This imagery, found to be highly effective in double blind,
placebo-controlled research, creates the context for a successful,
safe and comfortable surgery, complete with suggestions to reduce
bleeding and speed up mending with minimal discomfort. Includes 2 CDs
(81 min.)?
http://www.wellbaskets.com/hejosusucdby.html
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?Mind-body techniques-
Many studies have shown that when patients participate in their own
care, their overall results improve dramatically. Mind-body
techniques, such as guided imagery and self-hypnosis, are easy to do,
safe, effective, and very empowering. A variety of self-help books and
audiotapes can quickly teach you mind-body therapies that are
effective for any elective operation.?
?In addition, certain mind-body techniques may be referred to as
behavioral anesthesia. Using such therapies as guided imagery or
hypnosis has been shown to help control surgery-related pain and to
minimize the use of pain medications during recovery.?
?Many patients have found that the stress and anxiety of testing and
other presurgical procedures can be easier to handle when mind-body
techniques such as guided imagery and relaxation are used as well.?
?? Emotional and spiritual support
Maximize your healing potential by surrounding yourself with love and support.
? Bring a friend or family member to every doctor's appointment.
? Reconnect with people who care about you, and ask them to think of
you or pray for you while you are in surgery. Studies have shown that
prayer speeds recovery of hospitalized patients. More about the value
of such support is included in Peggy Huddleston's Prepare for Surgery,
Heal Faster program; see "Preparing for Surgery with Mind-Body
Techniques."
? Consider short-term psychotherapy if anxiety is overwhelming you. A
therapist may provide valuable advice to help you cope.?
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/hc/resourceareas_learn/1,1441,574,00.html
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Cue-Controlled (Not a tape, but interesting!)
?Cue-controlled relaxation is a powerful tool for calling up the
relaxation response and is especially useful after joint replacement
surgery. With this approach, you learn to use a specific cue as a
signal to elicit relaxation.
"It's one of the very best relaxation techniques for people preparing
for joint replacement surgery," says clinical health psychologist
William Deardorff, Ph.D. Among other things, cue-controlled relaxation
can be used to cope with nausea after anesthesia and pain after a
total joint replacement. It can also be used to prepare for an
uncomfortable procedure such as manipulation of a new hip joint in the
unlikely event it becomes dislocated right after surgery. This
relaxation technique can also help you relax during stressful
situations such as discussing your concerns about having joint
replacement surgery.?
http://www.jointreplacement.com/xq/ASP.default/pg.content/content_id.29/nav.living_well/qx/default.htm
?Several of the studies reviewed for this paper used assisted music
interventions in the surgical area with direct interaction between the
patient and a music therapist. Robb, Nichols, Rutan, Bishop & Parker
(1995) studied pediatric patients hospitalized due to injuries from
burns to determine the effects of music assisted relaxation on
preoperative anxiety. Subjects in the experimental group received
music assisted relaxation (MAR) with relaxation training and guided
imagery. Under the direction of a music therapist, these subjects
received music interventions before surgery, during transport to
surgery and in the recovery room.
Patients who received MAR showed a significant decrease in
activity and anxiety levels from transport to surgery (P<.05) as
reported by medical staff. Findings from the State-Trait Anxiety
Inventory for Children (STAIC) also showed a significant decrease in
levels of anxiety. In similar research, Chetta (1981) studied children
scheduled for elective surgery. Patients in the experimental groups
listened to songs reviewing preoperative information immediately after
receiving instructions the evening prior to surgery. In addition, with
the presence of a music therapist, patients in experimental group two
listened to music just before induction of preoperative medications on
the day of surgery. Patients in experimental group two were observed
as less anxious than were the patients in either of the other groups
(P<.01). Patients who had not received music listening the day of
surgery showed no decrease in anxiety.?
http://www.farlowmusictherapy.com/articles/surgery/assisted_music_relaxation.htm
Preparing for Successful Surgery: An Implementation Study
?Conclusions: Patient response to a perioperative mind-body program
was favorable. Most patients listened to the program CD at least once,
and a third used the CD repeatedly, as recommended. The majority of
patients who used the CD felt it had been helpful and would use it
again. Program participants experienced less anxiety on the night of
surgery.?
http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/sum05/prepare.html
I hope this has helped you. There simply are not a lot of tapes/CDs
made specifically for pre and post surgical relaxation!
If any part of my answer is unclear, please request an Answer
Clarification, and allow me to respond, before you rate. I will be
happy to assist you further, before you rate this answer.
Sincerely, Crabcakes
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