Eli5: how are treatments like acupuncture, kinetic tape and homeopathy still a thing, if scientific studies disproving their effectiveness are publicly available to everyone and doctors?
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A lot of it is effective, but in limited scope as compared to how the public normally approaches it.
for example chiropractic adjustments can be an effect palliative adjunct to physical therapy that will help maintain range of motion and allow the patient to perform their therapy exercises with less pain, and is quite safe as long as you avoid neck adjustments.
However most clients of chiropractors treat it like the adjustment itself is the cure, and not a temporary relief mechanism.
Same with Kinetic tape, it was developed and designed to provide temporary support to muscles for active recovery and during high-intensity workouts and/or games for sports players, and is now treated as a god-tier way to fully restore joint mobility.
again with acupuncture, it can resolve nerve pain. That’s it. However acupuncturists often promise FAR more than that.
In addition the thing that alternative medicines are selling are that they are distanced from the broken US healthcare system, the practitioners are often more personable and caring, and more importantly they make you feel good through a more intimate setting, person contact, and placebo effect, so people that go tend to keep going.
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