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It's good to see hospitals starting to use some of the relaxation techniques that have been common on complementary therapy for years.
As an aside, sometimes people ask me how I know that the relief people who visit me get is as a result of the therapy and isn't the placebo effect.
Firstly I've seen the techniques work on animals who probably don't know about the placebo effect.
However the main answer I have is that I don't care!
The thing that's important to me is that people regularly feel better after treatments, they have almost always have less pain and they always have less stress and I don't really care if that is the placebo effect.
They feel better without any dangerous side effects and that exactly what I want to achieve.
As an aside, sometimes people ask me how I know that the relief people who visit me get is as a result of the therapy and isn't the placebo effect.
Firstly I've seen the techniques work on animals who probably don't know about the placebo effect.
However the main answer I have is that I don't care!
The thing that's important to me is that people regularly feel better after treatments, they have almost always have less pain and they always have less stress and I don't really care if that is the placebo effect.
They feel better without any dangerous side effects and that exactly what I want to achieve.
posted by Jill at 12:01 PM
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