6-09 Placebo Controlled Studies, Placebo Effect and Manual Therapy and CAM Approaches

The Importance of How We Communicate with Our Clients: The Placebo Effect, The Brain and Parkinson’s Disease

    How we communicate with our clients, the tone of voice we use, the confidence we have, the knowledge we convey, is important to the continuation of our business. It is also significant to the health and well-being of our clients. If our clients respect us as practitioners, the placebo effect will enable them to feel and function even better. The placebo effect is enhanced by our talking to them about how the treatment we are doing with them will help them feel better, function better and look better. It is, of course, important for the treatment we are doing to be effective, as well. Mayberg noted, “clinical improvement in the group receiving placebo as part of an inpatient study is consistent with the well-recognized effect that altering the therapeutic environment may significantly contribute to reducing clinical symptoms.” (Mayberg, 2002).............Buy This Issue Today

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