Interesting article on the placebo effect - implications for use all?

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Hi everyone,

This is interesting research on the placebo-effect (see link below) from

Time health. Made me think about our discussions on use of modalities that

cannot be supported by research yet but have plenty of anecdotal reports of

positive effects. Before we throw all the devices away, be aware that they

may work, but just not how they are researched to work. It won't be until

we can be reimbursed using a system that rewards positive outcomes, not just

procedures, that we can fully take advantage of the mind-body connection in

treatment including the selected use of modalities that may work purely via

the placebo effect. If you take into account a clinician's experience (as

part of the evidence-based triangle) and their ability to understand when

the placebo effect may work when other treatments won't and you achieve the

outcomes desired and goals are reached, then is there anything wrong with

using it (the placebo effect) in treatment?

To look at it another way, is the growing body of research on the placebo

effect enough evidence-based to warrant reimbursement for the appropriate

use of it???

" Placebos Work Even if You Know They're Fake: But How? "

http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/27/placebos-work-even-if-you-know-theyre-

fake-but-how/?artId=20546?contType=article?chn=us

Tom Howell, P.T., M.P.T.

Howell Physical Therapy

Eagle, ID

thowell@...

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