Dr. Felicity Braithwaite - The magic surrounding placebo effects - and why there is still so much quackery in the health and fitness industry!
S&C Shoptalk Podcast
English - February 15, 2019 14:56 - 49 minutes - 19.4 MBHealth & Fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dr. Felicity Braithwaite - The magic surrounding placebo effects - and why there is still so much quackery in the health and fitness industry!
The S&C Shoptalk Podcast
Episode 8
00:00 min – 4:30 min Felicity’s background and her endeavours in research + her PhD
4:30 min – What is Placebo?
6:30 min – How do you fake dry needling (creating a sham for it)?
8:00 min – Fooling the therapists and patients
11:45 min – Are some placebo’s more effective than others? Sham acupuncture, surgery etc.
15:00 min – Breaking down barriers in belief that patients come in with?
16:45 min – potential negative consequences in placebo only treatments
19:30 min – Conditioning a placebo effect (like Pavlov’s dog)
21:30 min – Placebo vs. Nocebo
23:20 min – Why we should maximize positive benefits on placebo effects and how?
25:50 min – Felicity’s favourite study and how powerful people’s expectations are when it comes to experiencing pain and our behaviour as practitioners
29:00 min – The problem with ethics when it comes to Nocebo experiments
30:30 min – Why do we still see so much quackery in the health and fitness industry?
34:15 min – The therapeutic alliance and why it’s so important
36:00 min – Why people still gravitate towards things such as homeopathy and risk vs. reward with different treatment options
38:30 min – What’s next for placebo’s in science?
42:20 min – Felicity’s next research projects
44:00 min – What should contemporary pain science look like?
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Research:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Felicity_Braithwaite