The Placebo Response and Healthcare

The Placebo Response and Healthcare

The way a therapist presents themselves and present their techniques has influence on the treatment. The magnitude of a response may be influenced by mood, expectation, and conditioning, this is often referred to as the placebo response.

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November 2017 - monthly list of noteworthy finds

November 2017 - monthly list of noteworthy finds

A monthly list of recent noteworthy finds applicable to massage therapy. Posts are designed to be short and will go out the first friday of every month. As always, please let me know your requests and suggestions through email or social media.

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New research shows the brain can be tricked into feeling pain relief

New research shows the brain can be tricked into feeling pain relief

"Pain is never a nice things to experience, but it is one of the most useful bodily signals we have. It acts like an alarm system – sending an immediate message for highly harmful and potentially fatal conditions – so you know that when you touch that boiling hot pan, you should take your hand away very quickly."

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Brief Research Notes: Medical Acupuncture

Brief Research Notes: Medical Acupuncture

Acknowledging that traditional narratives outdated, medical acupuncture is an approach that is based upon a theory that is inline current scientific understanding of how the body works. Reframing acupuncture form of peripheral nerve stimulation technique in which acupuncture needles are inserted into anatomically defined sites, and stimulated manually or with electricity

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