If our mind listens and comprehends while we are asleep during surgery, what does it listen to when we are awake? And what does that do to our health.

Results of California Medical School Study..........
“What the patient hears—say a remark like, ‘He’s a goner’ —could conceivably have an adverse effect on his recovery,” says Henry Bennett, one of the researchers. In one study, anesthetized patients heard a taped voice tell them during surgery they should signify having heard the message by touching their ears in a postoperative interview. Later, in the interview, the patients tugged at their ears, although none could recall having heard the message, nor were they particularly aware of touching their ears.

Dr. Bennett, a psychologist now at the Univ. of California Medical school at Davis, reports that when patients were given the suggestion during surgery that one hand was becoming warmer and the other cooler, the hands’ temperature did so. This suggests, says Bennett, inadvertent negative remarks—such as, “Holy Moses, this is a terrible bone graft” —could interfere with recovery.

Under anesthesia, “Patients may be more vulnerable to upsetting remarks they might hear,” Bennett says. “Their normal coping techniques aren’t available, since they are drugged.” Other research involving patients undergoing back surgery suggests possible beneficial applications. Because a common postoperative complication of back surgery is difficulty is urinating, most patients require a catheter. During surgery, the researchers suggested to the anesthetized patients that they would be able to relax their pelvic muscles afterward, and so need no catheter. None of the patients who received the suggestion subsequently needed a catheter.

'As a former nurse, comatose people would wake up and remember my voice. Sometimes they would repeat what I said. They often said, oh you were the one who cared and talked to me. This is living proof that our mind receives information whether we are awake or not'. states Nancy Hicks, Founder of AHA.
 
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