When it comes to using treatments which have effects that may be nothing more than placebo, the question that is often asked is “What’s the harm?” Well, according to these authors, it could be...
We all know that “correlation does not equal causation” but it is still counterintuitive. There are many questions in healthcare that just cannot be approached by the randomized controlled trial (RCT) requiring us to...
Being positive in life is usually seen as a good thing. Try to identify the silver lining and highlight it. But when it comes to research, that “spin” can have detrimental results for developing...
The double bundle ACL reconstruction is better! Kinda. Sorta. Maybe. But maybe it’s not for you. Or maybe it is! Does this squirrel look fat? Does anyone read these descriptions? Does anyone else smell...
There is a lot that we can throw at musculoskeletal pain, but what actually has evidence behind it? We do we actually know and what directions should the research be headed? THIS ARTICLE IS...
Medical research as a whole can be a mess of low quality studies. This has significant downstream effects of misinformation, confusion, and large variation of practice, not to mention the abundance of low value...
QUICK! Cams in the hip: Good thing or bad thing?! Where do they come from? How do they develop? Does playing sports during adolescence cause them? How should you advise your patients? THIS ARTICLE...
Why is there so much research waste? Why are there lots of redundancies and studies that show effects but don’t actually move our understanding forward? Can anything be done to prevent this for happening...
If all patients get formal rehab right after lumbar disc surgery that would result in better outcomes and reduced overall costs right? Well, that makes sense but it turns out that such a question...
Psychological interventions are becoming popular for treating pain but what is the evidence base for this? Can these interventions stand alone or are they just are part of a bigger picture? Is pain what...
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