Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Placebo use in pain management: a mechanism-based educational intervention enhances placebo treatment acceptability

Healthcare providers use treatments whose effectiveness’s derive partially or completely from ‘non-specific’ factors, frequently referred to as placebo effects. While the ethics of interventional placebo use continues to be debated, evidence suggests that placebos can produce clinically meaningful analgesic effects. Burgeoning evidence suggest that patients with chronic pain may be open to placebos treatments under certain contexts despite limited knowledge of their well-established psycho-neurobiological underpinnings.

from The Journal of Pain http://ift.tt/1Qvj84M
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