The roads less travelled – four paths to get from touch to the body I am studying medicine and as part of our course we do an Independent Learning project. I am doing mine in ...
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Making Sense of Sense
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When showing it doesn’t work doesn’t work
I went to Melbourne on the weekend. To break the time-honoured Moseley tradition of not working on weekends requires some convincing and I was convinced by the nature of the crowd – truly interdisciplinary – ...
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The morality of magic kisses: Ethics and placebo in physiotherapy
When my daughter hurts herself, her placebo of choice is a “magic kiss”. This therapeutic intervention must be applied with care specific to the area of injury. Anecdotal evidence suggests that it is very effective. ...
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What did you expect?
Hands-up who thinks a patient’s expectations influence how well they do in treatment? Nearly everyone? That’s no surprise. Research recently published by a group in the US reported on the relationship between expectation and outcome in a sample of back pain patients receiving physiotherapy.
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We Believe Because We Evolved That Way part two
Why we have a placebo effect – Part II By Peter Blanch continued…. Bruce Hood (Hood 2009) in his book “Supersense: why we believe in the unbelievable” makes a couple of quite pertinent points. He outlines ...