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pspa123
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 Posted - 07/05/2012 : 09:38:30
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| I am sure many of you who have searched the internet for answers to your problems have come across a bewildering and seemingly endless array of modalities that claim astounding success rates in treating chronic pain (and everything else). (Just a few examples -- Neurosoma, Matrix Energetics, Psychosomatic Energetics [recogzines emotional issues as source of physical problems but treats them homeopathically], Field Control Therapy, Nutri-Energetic Systems, homeopathy, neural therapy, acupuncture, I could go on and on.) TMS practitioners I am sure dismiss them as pseudoscience and nonsense, and advise patients to discontinue their online searches, but how is one to understand the claims of success sometimes by doctors with degrees from respected institutions? Are they simply made in bad faith by snake oil salesmen? Are the practitioners just observing a powerful placebo effect? Are they seeing improvements that are not really there (confirmation bias)? |
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SteveO
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Posted - 07/05/2012 : 10:09:15
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Placebos.
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pspa123
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Posted - 07/05/2012 : 10:35:08
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| That would be my best guess too. My psychologist says that most of the history of medicine is about being able to harness the placebo effect, and he likely is right. And it would explain why none of this stuff has worked for me - because I didn't expect it to. Then again, how do we know the success rate for TMS isn't also an example of the placebo effect? |
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Wavy Soul
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 12:29:31
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That's why it can get worse before better when you become TMS savvy. Now you don't believe even the placebos you used to believe! E.g. chiropractors - at least a particular one - used to give me temporary relief. Then it stopped working when I began all this. Even HE believes in Sarno's approach.
But now - in that department, the TMS is quiet. I find it funny when my frends urgently 'need'
chiropractors.
Love is the answer, whatever the question |
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Claimed success rates for numerous modalities
