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\nIn alternative treatments, patients are told that \u201cit will take time to regain your health.\u201d Granted sufficient cultural authority, chiropractors and other alternative medicine practitioners could dissuade patients from risky and painful medical tests, dependence on addictive drugs and needless surgeries.<\/p>\n
This makes what chiropractors do secondary to what they prevent. True natural healing may involve distracting patients with a good story and avoiding medical interference. Spinal manipulation at least gives patients time, reassurance and permission to recover \u2014 without a costly back surgery that often has no greater probability of success than time and encouragement. (Of course, alternative medicine can become the new dependence \u2014 and the new form of bloated expenditure \u2014 as \u201cregaining health\u201d creeps into ongoing treatment for \u201cmaintaining health.\u201d)<\/p>\n
The greater theme here is that so much of our health and well-being lies in our connection with others. My study found that people receiving care \u2014 even if it was sham therapy in a control group \u2014 showed greater improvement over those stuck on a waiting list.<\/p>\n
The logical conclusion is that we are more resilient and more likely to recover if we have a plausible explanation of why we hurt and when the pain might end, and if we know that someone cares. How many other conditions might also require just patience, community and time to heal?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
In praise of placebos – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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