HYPNOTHERAPY can be as effective as medication for incontinence. Around 150 women with urge incontinence – the sudden need to urinate, which affects almost a quarter of females aged 40-plus – took part in a trial reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics Gynecology. Half of them had hypnotherapy, while the others took medicines including oxybutynin, which relaxes bladder muscles to reduce the urgency and frequency of urination. After six months, symptoms had improved by 85.7 per cent in the hypnotherapy group and by 83.3 per cent in the drugs group.
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