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Exploring the Efficacy of Placebos for Pain Management

Dive into the world of placebos - medically inactive treatments that can improve symptoms. Explore placebo response and placebo analgesia, questioning the ethical use of placebos for chronic pain management. Reflect on research and experimentation in the field.

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Exploring the Efficacy of Placebos for Pain Management

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  1. What if I were to make you take these? EPQ Candidate 1

  2. Placebos Medically inactive treatments Inert pharmaceuticals Sham Surgeries Can improve symptoms, not condition

  3. HOW

  4. Placebo Response/Effect Perceived physical and mental responses of the body after a treatment has been administered. Caused by expectation & ‘conditioning effect’ Nocebo response/effect

  5. AT THIS POINT

  6. Where are we on our journey to finding the extent to which placebos are an effective treatment for pain? What is a placebo? How does it work? How placebos work for pain & whether they are effective.

  7. PLACEBO ANALGESIA

  8. Is it wrong to use Placebos for pain? Consider a person in Chronic Pain – Incurable pain that exists in daily life.

  9. Effectiveness Efficacy in around ~40-60% population (+/-) Used as a last resort Can be administered without deception

  10. Reflection WWW – Sources, Primary Research EBI – Experiment, GSK

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