Your doctor's pain warnings could be a self-fulfilling prophecy

When doctors warn patients about pain, those words can pack more punch than promises of relief, new research reveals.
The study investigated two opposing effects: the well-known placebo effect, where positive expectations improve symptoms, and its darker counterpart, the nocebo effect — where negative expectations cause real physical symptoms even when there's no physical cause, like getting a headache simply because you were told a treatment might cause one. — Read the rest
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