Their wishful thinking that they're going to get better is harnessing the body's own mechanism for relieving pain. |
These hormones are important for patients' activity and their mood, their energy and responses to life stress in general, |
They know what they're doing, but their observations need to be born out in larger studies, and the therapies they're proposing need to be tested, |
This is not the kind of improvement that I would wish for my patients, but it was a real and measurable improvement, |
We noticed too little improvement in my mind to justify the use of this treatment, |