singular_me
30th December 2016, 07:15 PM
not too shabby... this is a drop in the ocean
I just posted this article in the "happy new year thread" and decide to bring this up to the attention.
Some on here may read this as a new age column. The power of the mind... no way!
All this can be traced back to people seeing absolutely nothing when profits are pouring into big pharma because they are raised to be impressed by power and the "making billion mindset" .... zero sum game coming
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Placebo Effect Has Risen Among Americans, Making Drug Development More Difficult
October 22, 2015
Sham Surgery Trial Proves Knee Surgeries Are a $4 Billion Medical Hoax
Many are quick to say that the placebo effect is responsible for the benefits of alternative treatments and natural supplements — the implication being that the treatment doesn't really work, and any benefit is "all in your head." But few stop to consider the fact that many of the benefits of conventional drugs and other interventions are also due to the placebo effect. One of the most dramatic examples of this was a knee surgery study13 published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002.
Not only does this double-blind, placebo-controlled, and multi-center trial definitively prove the power of your mind in healing, it also reveals that most knee surgery for osteoarthritis is an utter waste of money. The results of this study show that it's not actually the surgery itself that is responsible for the improvement, but rather it's almost entirely due to the placebo effect! More precisely, it's the ability of your brain to produce healing when you believe it should be happening (such as after you receive knee surgery). According to the authors:
"In this controlled trial involving patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, the outcomes after arthroscopic lavage or arthroscopic débridement were no better than those after a placebo procedure."
This was followed by another study,14 published in 2013, which also found that arthroscopic knee surgery for degenerative meniscal tears had no more benefit than "sham surgery." Here, they even excluded people with knee arthritis, as they tend not to benefit as much from meniscus surgery anyway, and the researchers wanted to ascertain if the surgery helps under "ideal circumstances."
Well, at the post-operative one-year mark, all patients, regardless of whether they had real or sham surgery, reported equal amounts of pain reduction, which led the researchers to conclude that real knee surgery offers no better outcome than sham surgery (placebo). This is a significant concession, as arthroscopic surgery on the meniscus is the most common orthopedic procedure in the US. According to this study, it's performed about 700,000 times a year to the tune of $4 billion.
But according to these findings, any surgeon who tells you this is "the best" or "only" option for your osteoarthritic knee pain will not have a leg to stand on when you show him or her this evidence. It's also worth considering these kinds of findings when you're weighing your treatment options. Remembering that your mind is the real healer here may help you find safer and less costly alternatives.
MORE
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/10/22/growing-placebo-effect-thwarts-painkiller-development.aspx
PRICELESS QUOTE, INDEED!!!
http://img11.deviantart.net/4272/i/2012/057/2/d/price_is_what_you_pay__value_is_what_you_get__by_l ord_nothing-d4r2lly.jpg
SAME LINK, HOW MANY MIGRAINE DRUGS ARE SOLD ON THE MARKET THESE DAYS? WORTH BILLIONS OF $$
More Than 50 Percent of Pain-Relief from One Migraine Drug Is Due to Placebo Effect
Another example that reveals the extent to which the placebo effect may be at work in modern medicine is a study15 involving the migraine drug Maxalt (rizatriptan). When patients received placebo pills labeled as Maxalt, they reported similar pain relief as those receiving actual Maxalt tablets marked as placebo. According to the authors, the placebo effect accounted for more than 50 percent of the therapeutic value of this drug. Professor Ted Kaptchuk co-authored this study as well, and here he noted that:16
"This study untangled and reassembled the clinical effects of placebo and medication in a unique manner. Very few, if any, experiments have compared the effectiveness of medication under different degrees of information in a naturally recurring disease. Our discovery showing that subjects' reports of pain were nearly identical when they were told that an active drug was a placebo as when they were told that a placebo was an active drug demonstrates that the placebo effect is an unacknowledged partner for powerful medications." [Emphasis mine]
I just posted this article in the "happy new year thread" and decide to bring this up to the attention.
Some on here may read this as a new age column. The power of the mind... no way!
All this can be traced back to people seeing absolutely nothing when profits are pouring into big pharma because they are raised to be impressed by power and the "making billion mindset" .... zero sum game coming
=======================
Placebo Effect Has Risen Among Americans, Making Drug Development More Difficult
October 22, 2015
Sham Surgery Trial Proves Knee Surgeries Are a $4 Billion Medical Hoax
Many are quick to say that the placebo effect is responsible for the benefits of alternative treatments and natural supplements — the implication being that the treatment doesn't really work, and any benefit is "all in your head." But few stop to consider the fact that many of the benefits of conventional drugs and other interventions are also due to the placebo effect. One of the most dramatic examples of this was a knee surgery study13 published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002.
Not only does this double-blind, placebo-controlled, and multi-center trial definitively prove the power of your mind in healing, it also reveals that most knee surgery for osteoarthritis is an utter waste of money. The results of this study show that it's not actually the surgery itself that is responsible for the improvement, but rather it's almost entirely due to the placebo effect! More precisely, it's the ability of your brain to produce healing when you believe it should be happening (such as after you receive knee surgery). According to the authors:
"In this controlled trial involving patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, the outcomes after arthroscopic lavage or arthroscopic débridement were no better than those after a placebo procedure."
This was followed by another study,14 published in 2013, which also found that arthroscopic knee surgery for degenerative meniscal tears had no more benefit than "sham surgery." Here, they even excluded people with knee arthritis, as they tend not to benefit as much from meniscus surgery anyway, and the researchers wanted to ascertain if the surgery helps under "ideal circumstances."
Well, at the post-operative one-year mark, all patients, regardless of whether they had real or sham surgery, reported equal amounts of pain reduction, which led the researchers to conclude that real knee surgery offers no better outcome than sham surgery (placebo). This is a significant concession, as arthroscopic surgery on the meniscus is the most common orthopedic procedure in the US. According to this study, it's performed about 700,000 times a year to the tune of $4 billion.
But according to these findings, any surgeon who tells you this is "the best" or "only" option for your osteoarthritic knee pain will not have a leg to stand on when you show him or her this evidence. It's also worth considering these kinds of findings when you're weighing your treatment options. Remembering that your mind is the real healer here may help you find safer and less costly alternatives.
MORE
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/10/22/growing-placebo-effect-thwarts-painkiller-development.aspx
PRICELESS QUOTE, INDEED!!!
http://img11.deviantart.net/4272/i/2012/057/2/d/price_is_what_you_pay__value_is_what_you_get__by_l ord_nothing-d4r2lly.jpg
SAME LINK, HOW MANY MIGRAINE DRUGS ARE SOLD ON THE MARKET THESE DAYS? WORTH BILLIONS OF $$
More Than 50 Percent of Pain-Relief from One Migraine Drug Is Due to Placebo Effect
Another example that reveals the extent to which the placebo effect may be at work in modern medicine is a study15 involving the migraine drug Maxalt (rizatriptan). When patients received placebo pills labeled as Maxalt, they reported similar pain relief as those receiving actual Maxalt tablets marked as placebo. According to the authors, the placebo effect accounted for more than 50 percent of the therapeutic value of this drug. Professor Ted Kaptchuk co-authored this study as well, and here he noted that:16
"This study untangled and reassembled the clinical effects of placebo and medication in a unique manner. Very few, if any, experiments have compared the effectiveness of medication under different degrees of information in a naturally recurring disease. Our discovery showing that subjects' reports of pain were nearly identical when they were told that an active drug was a placebo as when they were told that a placebo was an active drug demonstrates that the placebo effect is an unacknowledged partner for powerful medications." [Emphasis mine]