Unfortunately, many rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases are still largely chronic and incurable.
Patients yearn for inexpensive, safe, simple and effective alternatives.
They often feel helpless in the face of unpredictable but progressive and disabling disease and seek therapies that offer them control of their illnesses. All therapies must meet the same rigorous standards of scientific scrutiny using scientific methods. To a scientist, nothing is incredible. To ignore this would not be fair to our patients and would be imprudent for a major professional organization. The ACR welcomes rigorous scientific evaluation of all hypotheses that might improve our understanding and treatments of rheumatic diseases.