placebo

Hey all, I was told by my hand surgeon that my wrist will never be the same and that I may have pain for the rest of my life. 2 years ago I fell and broke both wrists and one had to be surgically repaired. I have had pain and weakness in the surgically repaired wrist. I refuse to believe his...

Hi everyone I've posted a bit recently so I'm sorry to monopolise but an interesting thing has come up for me and I'm wondering how others have understood and reconciled with it. TMS talks a lot about the power of the placebo, nocebo etc and how the brain causes symptoms to communicate with...

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 :-)

hi, it seems to me that Dr. Sarno's theory is so difficult to be accepted because many surgeries (low back, knee, hip, ...) work, because its radical nature, at least for some months. Later on pain probably returns in another location (the opposite knee, shoulder,...) and once more the...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vbq52

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!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/magazine/placebo-effect-medicine.html?ref=nyt-es&mcid=nyt-es&subid=article (What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?)

Through my journey I've joined several support groups (which I no longer look at much), but many involved various food plans, such as Paleo, vegan, macrobiotic. In many cases, people would report that they felt drastically better when they began cleaning up their diet. For example, a man with...