‘Caution, this treatment is a placebo. It might work, but it might not’: why emerging mechanistic evidence for placebo effects does not legitimise complementary and alternative medicines in sport
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'Caution, this treatment is a placebo. It might work, but it might not': why emerging mechanistic evidence for placebo effects does not legitimise complementary and alternative medicines in sport.
Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are treatments for which either evidence is lacking, or for which evidence suggests no effect over a placebo treatment. When a non-evidence-based treatment is used alongside conventional medicine, it is considered ‘complementary’. When a nonevidence-based treatment is used instead of conventional medicine, it is considered ‘alternative’. Many forms ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Sports Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0306-3674,1473-0480
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2017-097747