“We should listen less to the opinions of those who either overtly promote or stubbornly reject complementary and alternative medicine without acceptable evidence. The many patients who use complementary and alternative medicine deserve better. Patients and healthcare providers need to know which forms are safe and effective. Its future should (and hopefully will) be determined by unbiased scientific evaluation.” KnowsNeedsShouldUsePainFormOpinionSafeEvidenceDeserveMedicinePatientDeterminedHopefullyAlternativesTherapyInjuryRejectsHealthcareAcceptableEvaluationProvidersComplementaryAlternative MedicineUnbiasedDeserve Better Author:Edzard Ernst
“"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.” MindMeanWould BePainWillingEvidenceObjectivesTherapyInjuryConfrontationWilling To Change Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Hopefully we are emerging from an era of fantasy explanations for real phenomena. The authors certainly have to face a community of therapists who are obsessionally committed to explanations for disease and for therapy unsupported by a scrap of evidence except for their claimed therapeutic success.” RealPainFacesCommunityFantasyDiseaseEvidenceCommittedHopefullyErasTherapyExplanationInjuryEmergingTherapistsScrapTherapeutic Author:Patrick David Wall
“Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. As a result of expressing my opinion on this subject, I have been called a chiropractic heretic.” Has BeensPainCertainBeliefResultsOpinionSupportSubjectsTypeEvidenceLogicTherapyNecksInjuryManipulationSymptomsHereticChiropracticBack PainScientific Evidence Book:Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide Source: Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide
“These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing happens without communication, treatment based on evidence of outcome, and what used to be called a good bedside manner.” PeopleLongHappensPainUsedCommunicationTrainingEvidenceDoctorsThings HappenTraditionalUsed To BeTherapyOutcomesInjuryTreatmentDoctor WhoSchoolingWithout CommunicationBedside Manner Book:Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign
“Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.” PainSimplePowerfulEvidenceTraditionDoctorsPatientBeing TrueTherapyInjuryIngredientsContractsSurgeryInterventionVery PowerfulTime SpentBack Pain Book:Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign
“The most obvious and easiest answer if you've got a head injury is a better helmet. The problem is there's no evidence that it is the answer. I've watched a couple equipment manufacturers make presentations. They're very slick. They're very well done. And they usually start with the same disclaimer: there is no evidence that helmets reduce the frequency of concussions. You come away going "isn't this amazing?" It's so amazing you forget the opening line, that it doesn't do anything. It has no impact on concussions.” DoneProblemForgetCoupleEvidenceObviousInjuryWell DoneHelmetSlick Author:Ken Dryden