Pain Response to Open Label Placebo in Induced Acute Pain in Healthy Adult Males

Conclusions Open label placebos might play a role in multimodal analgesic concepts.Editor ’s PerspectiveWhat We Already Know about This TopicPlacebo treatments even if known to the patient to be placebo, so-called “open label placebo,” may be effective in reducing chronic painThe effects of the extent of placebo education are poorly understoodWhat This Article Tells Us That Is NewUsing a well-characterized electrical pain sensitization model in human volunteers, the effects of short versus detailed placebo educational protocols were measuredOpen label placebo treatment reduced pain sensitization in the volunteers, but the extent of placebo education did not modify these responses
Source: Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research