Cancer: Doctors, Chemotherapy to Prescriptions – Knowing Your Options

By: Traci Patterson, CH, CI – Owner and Founder, Advanced Pathways Hypnosis   According to statistics from the American Cancer Society and NIH there are 14 million new cases of cancer each year. Diagnoses of cancer are expected to increase by 70% in the next 20 years. Fortunately, only 5-10% of these cases are attributed

New CDC Guidelines Effects on the Pain Community

By: Traci Patterson, CH, CI – Owner and Founder, Advanced Pathways Hypnosis   In the last month the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) handed down new guidelines pertaining to opioid prescribing and the National Pain Strategy (NPS) was implemented. These guidelines and strategies have left the chronic pain community reeling, discouraged and feeling left behind.

Hypnosis Combined Therapy: Providing Treatment Options and Relief for CRPS and Chronic Pain Patients

By: Traci Patterson, CH, CI – Owner and Founder, Advanced Pathways Hypnosis Today, over 1 million people are diagnosed with CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) aka RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) worldwide. While staggering, patients are not being given the options of treatments outside the box that can help them such as Hypnosis Combined Therapy (HCT).

It All Starts in the Waiting Room, and It’s a Wrap with Your Doctor

By: Traci Patterson, CH, CI – Owner and Founder, Advanced Pathways Hypnosis   If you or a loved one has ever been diagnosed with a chronic pain condition, CRPS, cancer, PTSD or any other debilitating condition, this will hit home as you’ve been there. Where is ‘there’, you ask? The doctor’s office to obtain verification

Anxiety Scrambles Your Brain

By:  Traci Patterson, CH, CI – Owner and Founder, Advanced Pathways Hypnosis I think that anyone that has studied for a board or exam can tell you that it’s no surprise to hear that anxiety scrambles your brain making learning hard. This is the case for those taking board exams (lawyers, CPAs, nurses, etc.), college

Life in Remission: Two Years Down and Many More to Go

By:  Traci Patterson, CH, CI – Owner and Founder, Advanced Pathways Hypnosis Yes, it has actually been two years now since I officially got into remission, completely pain-free, from my Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS).  This is my Anniversary week! Remission, a word that can mean so much to so many but yet can be so elusive

Hypnosis Combined Therapy: A Breakthrough in Chronic Pain Treatment

By: Traci Patterson, CH, CI – Founder and Owner of Advanced Pathways Hypnosis Millions of people from children to adults are affected by chronic pain, which is commonly referred to as CRPS/RSD, Fibromyalgia, cluster headaches, neuropathic pain, etc. The numbers are staggering and they continue to grow. For the majority of individuals that receive these

CRPS: Treatment Options That Work

By:  Traci Patterson, CH, CI, Owner and Founder of Advanced Pathways Hypnosis Advanced Pathways is providing CRPS/RSD and chronic pain patients with solutions, hope and health. Today there are more and more patients living with chronic pain and conditions such as CRPS/RSD (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome / Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy).  The numbers are staggering not only

Lessons Learned From Cancer

By: Traci Patterson, CH, CI, Owner, Advanced Pathways Hypnosis December, 2014 I wrote an article, “Life Lessons I Learned from Cancer”. Well, it’s time to update that article a bit. In 2015, there will be an estimated 1,658,370 new cancer cases diagnosed and 589,430 cancer deaths in the United States, according to the American Cancer

Fibromyalgia: Successful Treatment Option

     In 1987, the American Medical Association recognized Fibromyalgia as a true physical illness and major cause of disability.  Yes, we all know that this condition has been around much longer than this and in all reality there was an illness in the 1800’s called neurasthenia where people developed the symptoms of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue