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Nocebic Narratives of the SIJ - with Dr Thorvaldur Palsson

The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson

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Is Manual Therapy a Good Intervention for SLJ Pain?

Manual therapy is a technique used to move the sacred joint in certain ways. Some people experience relief from it and that's absolutely fine but associating that then with something being now uh put it into a better or more favorable position, i think that's where we got it wrong. The placebo effect will inevitably also include the placebo effect so passively moving the joint is fine as long as we don't think that we're pushing something back or into place or doing something.

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