placebo effect

My how time passes. This article is already 7 years old, and 100% in line with our work. It quotes Tor Wager of the Boulder Pain Study, it quotes Alan Gordon and mentions PRT being trial-tested, talks about the power of the placebo effect, and even briefly mentions Dr Sarno as a pioneer...

The amount of TMS-related material that is available these days is exciting - and a bit overwhelming. Be sure to keep up with the latest recommendations from our community members by clicking on "All Recent Threads" and dropping in on each one - there's some great stuff being posted, and you...

I thought this group might find this interesting - https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/07/1076359099/a-brain-circuit-tied-to-emotion-may-lead-to-better-treatments-for-parkinsons-dis Demonstrating the importance of joy to the brain circuitry :-)

I love this guy’s other skits, and his Placebo Effect one had me dying from the honesty. I thought of all of y’all here. Enjoy!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this chiropractic patient's 4 disk bulges/herniations don't seem to bother him as much as the tension in his muscles and tendons that are creating his posture and pain problems. You'll notice that the standard leg raise test doesn't seem to make him hurt: Seems to...

Ever since I got involved in the TMS universe, I've been a little murky on how much the "placebo effect" contributes to healing vs. actually releasing/ labeling/ acknowledging difficult emotions. I'm still not totally clear on it to be honest, but I guess I've come to the following question on...

Today I listened to a podcast with the beloved Deepak Chopra (he's so great) talking with Tony Robbins. It was really really inspiring and incredibly interesting. He, like Dr. Sarno, has a western medical background, but eventually shifted to both an eastern (Ayurvedic) perspective, as well as a...

Hello, everyone – I am new to the forum, yet not new to TMS. I have some questions about how Dr. Sarno and other TMS experts always say to get checked out fully first before starting the TMS approach. I live far away from any TMS doctors or therapists, so I have had to rely on the traditional...

Aloha, Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an irregular and often rapid heart rate that can increase your risk of stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications. During atrial fibrillation, the heart's two upper chambers (the atria) beat chaotically and irregularly — out of coordination...

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/26/464372009/how-meditation-placebos-and-virtual-reality-help-power-mind-over-body?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160126

The following was recently in the New York Times... A Placebo Treatment for Pain Credit Sophie Lécuyer THE crisis of painkiller addiction is becoming increasingly personal: Sixteen percent of Americans know someone who has died from a prescription painkiller overdose, according to a recent...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3378298/Mot-rhead-Drummer-Mikkey-Dee-announces-end-influential-hard-rock-band-following-death-founder-frontman-Ian-Lemmy-Kilmister.html When I first heard about the death of Lemmy from Moorhead the other day I was taken aback that he died so soon...

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1872817 "...These components, together with patient confidence in the treatment and its effectiveness, are all known to contribute to an effective placebo response.37- 39 There is evidence that the quality of the therapeutic relationship...

We are all SO much more powerful than what you think! I LOVED this talk! You can heal yourself or make yourself sick! Just more proof that standard western medicine isn't necessarily the only way :) AND this is coming from a doctor ;) Only guess what... You don't need a doctor all the time! You...

I was watching “The Nature of Things - Brain Magic: The Power of Placebos” the other day. They were stating that the placebo effect can help with of asthma, parkinson's and pain. They performed placebo knee surgery, where they actually cut people open and did nothing, and these people became...

I am about halfway through Dr. Joe Dispenza's new book, You are the Placebo. Fantastic! I know that for many of us, repressed emotional issues and the resulting pain cycles are the cause of our TMS. But for some like me, there is a secondary cause that has to be dealt with and that's just plain...

A very powerful episode!"Could the best medicine be no medicine at all? We take stock of the pharmacy in our brains, consider the symbolic power of the doctor coat, and visit the tent of a self-proclaimed faith healer"http://www.radiolab.org/story/91539-placebo/

CALL-IN DISCUSSION; OZANICH CHAPTER 7: PLACEBOS This Tuesday, October 1st, the call-in discussion group will be discussing Chapter 7 (Placebo Yo-Yos and Nocebo No-Nos) in Steve Ozanich's book The Great Pain Deception starting at 9 pm Eastern Time. It lasts an hour, sometimes a little longer...

Watched this on YouTube this morning: Thought it was very interesting that the efficacy of the placebo response varied between Germany and Brazil, with Germans reacting more positively. It made me wonder about the difference in back pain statistics between the developed world, and the Third...

From Deutsche Welle, the German version of the BBC World Service: "Medical historian Prof. Dr. Robert Jütte explains the significance of the placebo effect, the fact that it's no delusion when pills without active ingredients help us, and what doctors and patients should know about this...