Placebo response from surgery?
Is the mind powerful enough to spend the time that it takes to harness its power? One line of evidence that the answer to this question is YES! (sorry for yelling...) is research that illuminates just how powerful the placebo response is. Two recent studies looked at the effectiveness of a procedure to treat back pain from vertebral fracture or collapse. In both studies some participants got the real procedure, others got a sham procedure. It turned out that it did not matter whether these people got the real surgery or the sham or placebo surgery. Both groups had the same chance of benefiting from the experience. This suggests that any benefit was mediated by the mind and was not a direct effect of the spinal intervention. Click on the link below to read the NY Times article:
Link to New York Times Article
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