Healthy Visions Wellness Center to Provide “HypnoAnesthesia For Pain Management” Workshop January 28th- 29th

Ron Eslinger, owner and director of the Healthy Visions Wellness Center in Oak Ridge, TN will be offering a HypnoAnesthesia workshop for health care and wellness care workers on January 28th and 29th, 2006. This workshop which has been approved by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists for 20 Continuing Education Credits (CEC’s) , will be taught at his center’s educational facility located at 800 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Suite A-208.

More than 50 million people throughout this country are either partially or fully disabled by chronic pain. According to a 2002 Reuters Health/ABC News report, pain actually costs employers across this nation $80 Billion annually in insurance costs and lost wages. That’s $80 Billion with a capitol “B” and the figure has been steadily climbing each year. These two statistics alone call for a greater understanding of pain and how its effects can be lessened or alleviated. The Joint Commission Association of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) has strongly supported non-pharmacological methods of pain management. In a recent survey of healthcare costs related to the treatment of pain, the insurance provider, Blue Shield of California discovered that the use of guided imagery, a component of hypnosis, reduced the post surgical patient’s costs by an average of $654.00.

The HypnoAnesthesia for Pain Management workshop will be discussing what happens when pain is no longer useful to the body, the function of the autonomic nervous system and it’s relationship to pain and why hypnosis works well as an adjunct treatment for chronic pain, among other related topics. Attendees will experience a comprehensive step-by-step study of the techniques of dealing with Stress Induced Headaches, Migraine Headaches, Chronic Post Surgical Pain, Cancer Pain, Fibromyalgia, Back and Neck Pain, Temporomandibular Disorder, Tic Douloureux. This 2 day class will be packed with information regarding the importance of cognitive strategies in pain management and how the power of suggestion enhances the treatment of pain, how hypnosis can positively affect the quality of life of cancer patients and understanding and reprogramming cell memory. Participants will even witness a live demonstration of glove anesthesia (numbing of the hand).

Past participants in Ron Eslinger’s workshops have raved about them. “Yours was the most important seminar I have ever taken regarding hypnosis and healing. Little did I imagine what rapid use it would have. I can’t thank you enough.” says Joyce Flynn of Saint Louis, MO. Walter Laesh said “I have been a practicing CRNA since 1975 and have attended multiple continuing education seminars. Unquestionably, this has been the most comfortably intense practical and implementable seminar I have attended.”

The workshop will be held at the Healthy Visions Wellness Center located at 800 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Suite A-208 in Oak Ridge Tennessee. It opens on Saturday, January 28th with registration and continental breakfast and will run to 5:35PM with leisurely morning and afternoon breaks with a working lunch that is provided by Healthy Visions. Sunday’s session will run from 8:00 AM and conclude at 5:35PM also with leisurely morning and afternoon breaks with a working lunch provided by Healthy Visions. Registration can be completed online at http://www.eslinger.net or by phone by calling 865-220-0777. Special hotel accommodation arrangements have been made for out of town attendees at the Double Tree Hotel in Oak Ridge.

For more on this event or to interview Ron Eslinger for broadcast or print contact: Karen Brooks at 865.220.0777 or kbrooks@eslinger.net

About Ron Eslinger: Healthy Visions Wellness Center Director, Ron Eslinger, is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Advanced Practice Nurse, Master of Arts, Board Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Instructor of Hypnosis and Certified Instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotists.

A retired Captain in the US Navy, Ron developed the Complementary Care Clinic and introduced HypnoBirthing to the field of obstetrics at the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center. At the Navy’s Beaufort, SC facility he developed a hypnosis program for Health Promotions. He was a member of the Editorial Board for CRNA and The Clinical Forum for Nurse Anesthetists. He published four articles, three on medical hypnosis. He is past President of the Virginia Association of Nurse Anesthetists and he served as the Program Chairman of the South Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists. He is currently Vice President, Region 2 of the Tennessee Nurses Association.

Ron lectures extensively to medical and nursing organizations on Hypnosis, Stress Management, Anesthesia, HIV/AIDS, and Bioterrorism. He is frequent faculty to Clemson University’s Annual Continuing Nurse Education Conferences, Gatlinburg, the Nurse Anesthesiology Faculty Association, Frank Moya, CRNA Annual Review Course, and the Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing.

He is recognized by many in the media as a “source” for expert opinion in the field of hypnotherapy and issues concerning non-pharmacological pain management, and he regularly meets with medical and wellness professionals to enhance their knowledge and awareness of hypnosis and its dynamic potential. He has done five Radio and two TV Interviews, and recently interviewed by Harpers Magazine and Advanced Nursing.

Ron is the recipient of many awards including instructor of the month, Researcher of the Year and the prestigious NGH Presenter of the Year Ormond McGill Chair. He was also nominated by the US Navy to represent the Department of Defense on the National Institutes of Health’s committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Mr. Eslinger has accepted the invitation to be the Keynote Speaker at Great Britain’s National Council for Hypnotherapy annual meeting and will be delivering his address to their members there in June of 2006.