Ep15: ”Hands-off” Physiotherapy—Hypnosis for Pain with Alex Chisholm

Alex Chisholm, PT, BScPT, PgCPain, FACHS is a Physiotherapist with over 30 years of clinical experience. Alex received her postgraduate certificate in Multidisciplinary Pain Management from the University of Alberta. She is one of the executives of the Pain Science division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association and was part of the working group that helped create the Chronic Pain Toolkit with Physiotherapy Alberta. She is a Fellow of the Alberta Clinical Hypnosis Society, previously the Canadian Federation of Clinical Hypnosis, and is a member of the Alberta Pain Society’s Planning committee for their annual Pain conference. In addition, she is a certified ‘Comfort Talk’ trainer. Alex currently works on the Burns and Plastics team at the Foothills Medical Center where she pursues her passion for burn survivor rehabilitation, and has taught nationally and internationally on Pain, Hypnosis and Pain management techniques. In this episode, we talked about what hypnosis is, how it can help patients, practical considerations when using hypnosis, and the power of therapeutic alliance and word choice.

 

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