"However, common therapies such as surgery and steroid injections intended to address physical origins of back pain have not been clearly proven to work in randomized clinical trials"
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"To assess whether PSRT can reduce symptoms and pain-related anxiety in patients with non-specific chronic back pain, Donnino and colleagues enrolled 35 participants"
Like most psychology findings there will also be issues reproducing the results as well. It is a bit of a common occurrence to get these big calls around how people don't need pain drugs anymore while all the recipients of these new treatments are crying out in pain on support forums across the globe. It never seems to actually work.
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"To assess whether PSRT can reduce symptoms and pain-related anxiety in patients with non-specific chronic back pain, Donnino and colleagues enrolled 35 participants"
35 participants …