The Powerful Placebo Effect in Modern Medicine
Channel: Sprouts
Date: 2019-09-03

Learn how placebos—fake treatments with no therapeutic value—can significantly reduce pain and stress, and discover theories behind the placebo effect in this 09:31 minute long video lesson.

A placebo is a treatment with zero therapeutic value but magical healing power. To understand better how placebos work, let’s look at Mr. and Mrs. Martin, who both suffer chronic back pain...
 
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Read the entire script here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14YGEhsj3QtXJVhEkih851iFxLQucZ-VSF4X1bxHwXUw/edit?usp=sharing
 
Sources:
 
Reconsidering the Placebo Response from a Broad Anthropological Perspective
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730465/
 
Sham surgeries: A tale of medical reversals & the role of the media https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/12/sham-surgery-medical-reversals-media/
 
Placebo Effect of the Heart
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/placebo-effect-of-the-heart/545012/
 
The neuroscience of placebo effects: connecting context, learning, and health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013051/
 
Two-year results of a randomized placebo-controlled trial of vertebroplasty for acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24967454
 
Spinal Fracture Treatment
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/health/spinal-fracture-treatment.html
 
The Honest Placebo Studies
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/placebos-work-even-without-deception