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**DailyRingtone** · 10-01-2010, 04:16 AM

Taking money for a practice that doesn't really do anything while saying it does is wholly dishonest.

If the practice itself actually produces the "placebo effect" isn't it working? If it take the 'props' of a medical procedure to 'fool' the mind into producing the effect, what's the difference? I'm playing devil's advocate here because I have indeed had great luck with acupuncture for a few different maladies and to great success.

I have bad knees and over 30 years and eight surgeries, arthritis, and an Air Force career they get painful. Anyone with arthritis will tell you it's worse in damp or cold weather and the ache is very deep in the bones. NSAIDs can't touch the pain but I have had acupuncture be very effective. I hope the practice becomes more widespread in military medicine.

10-01-2010, 04:16 AM	#4
DailyRingtone Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 690 Senior Member	Taking money for a practice that doesn't really do anything while saying it does is wholly dishonest. If the practice itself actually produces the "placebo effect" isn't it working? If it take the 'props' of a medical procedure to 'fool' the mind into producing the effect, what's the difference? I'm playing devil's advocate here because I have indeed had great luck with acupuncture for a few different maladies and to great success. I have bad knees and over 30 years and eight surgeries, arthritis, and an Air Force career they get painful. Anyone with arthritis will tell you it's worse in damp or cold weather and the ache is very deep in the bones. NSAIDs can't touch the pain but I have had acupuncture be very effective. I hope the practice becomes more widespread in military medicine.
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