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fandomsecrets2010-09-19 05:01 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2010-09-19 05:01 pm
[ SECRET POST #1355 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1355 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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How can you see something serve more than a placebo effect? Honest question - I don't understand how that's possible unless you're conducting your own randomised medical trials at home. If something works, it works, and unless you're involved in medical testing surely there's no way to know whether it works due to a placebo effect or due to a real intrinsic effect?
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I'm a massage therapist. I get a lot of clients that combine my line of work with their doctors and/or their acupuncturists. It's part of my job to detect muscular changes if I've been seeing clients long enough, so I guess I am involved somewhat.
If you want a specific case though, I'll give the one that swayed me. I've a client that's been quadriplegic for the last 18 years. His normal routine involved a plethora of medication with varied results--overall though, he suffered pretty badly.
Long story short, he tried acupuncture and felt much more relief than he'd felt in a long while. The reason he figured it wasn't a placebo effect is because something weird happened--as he continued with the acupuncture, he noticed that he could start feeling muted sensation in his extremities when he couldn't feel anything before. Certainly not enough to move the limbs on his own, but odd in that he went from feeling nothing to being able to sense pressure and temperature to some degree--and the only thing that changed in his normal pattern was the acupuncture.
He's continued to improve since then, thankfully, and has incorporated other alternative therapies into his lifestyle (like my own, for example). I was curious when he told me about this as well, because I'm pretty skeptical myself, but he proved to me that he wasn't faking the ability to feel in his legs. He can tell exactly what part of the leg I am touching without being able to see where I am, and I don't mean general description either. He can tell which toe, which tendon, etc.
I understand that everyone else can look at this as hearsay, but I see this guy every week. I can't do that, not when I can see and feel the results myself. His physical condition in addition to that of the rest of my clients is enough proof for me to see that acupuncture, when performed by someone who knows what they're doing, can be a very effective form of pain relief.