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Question:
Magnets for back Pain Remdies seem to be easily discarded as false. Even if magnets are a placebo , SO WHAT ? why is the person who got help
with their problem being put down ?
Answer:
I agree. If someone says it works for them, why put them down??? They
have helped me, my friends, my family, my customers. Can all of us be
wrong???
Who cares if they are a placebo??? They work and give us the relief we
seek. Even people with more, a lot more severe problems have been
helped.
Magnets are available for a few dollars from edmund scientific. Massage also
works for back pain, and I hear they still occasionally give back rubs in
hospitals in spite of the lack of double blind studies. A soak in a tub of hot
water helps my back pain, and I don't worry about the lack of a double blind
study to prove it helps. I think that if magnets help, then use them. I doubt
that there have been double blind studies on spinal fusions, but they are still
used, and they help some people.
My father had a torn rotar cuff and tried magnets and they did not help. What
seemed to work was gentle exercise, massage, a heat lamp, twice dayly for about
a year, I don't feel that cure was very scientific but it worked.
Let's be clear about a placebo. Define the term so that by definition
it may be said unequivocably that a placebo does not work. So defined,
a placebo that works is not a placebo but a misnomer. A true placebo
may be accompanied by relief. The relief may or not be replicable and
may or may not be explained in scientific fashion, but the relief that
accompanies a placebo is by definition not the work of the placebo.
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