Clinical Studies.
Clinical trials leading to Gold
Standard, Scientifically Proven, Evidence Based Medicine is a big
industry within science, medicine and the pharmaceutical industry.
One could
consider, much of it is only about gaining more research funding
or one’s Nobel Prize!
DNA, Genetic,
Biological and even Psychological studies to determine the
clinical cause of illness. During these studies People - the
numbers of People used in studies today is relatively few,
compared to the hundreds and sometimes thousands of People
subjected too treatments/drugs under trial to determine the
efficacy of a drug or the predisposition of a certain type of
Person to succumb to a particular disease, with blind, double
blind and placebo studies and peer reviewed trials.
Despite the profound efforts of
many dedicated scientists and research chemists, the world is
ridden with a list of untreatable illnesses and illnesses that
have no known cause, or cure.
No Person, it seems in a position of
authority asks "Why is this."
Not even as seem to be the modern day
norm using the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia...
Perhaps this will come.
It could be
considered there is not a single illness in the world, Medical
Science has a cure for, or knows the cause. Sometimes brilliant
management, yes, cure, suspect.
A lifetime of professional or personal management
techniques or medication is not to be seen as a cure.
Operations fall into a slightly
different category, no Person can surely criticise our brilliant
surgeons.
Or can they? Many
operations seem to offer a resolution, however, so many times the
condition returns in a different part of the body, or as in the
case of Pain it goes from acute to chronic, hence the reason the
Pain Clinics are so full, most of their work appears to come
straight from the surgeons where the operation to cure the Pain
was not effective.
Or is the
requirement of an operation only an admission Gold Standard,
Scientifically Proven Evidence Based medicine has not been
as successful as desired.
All medical
treatments treat a presenting symptom, is it possible this has a
cause as well and this is why there is no known cure; do not take
my word for it go to the Medical Library - internet - type in any
illness; follow the links to Medical Literature, there before your
eyes somewhere within the document in the researchers own words...
"The
cause is not known, there is no known cure.
Please contact me
if you can find different information.
When
discussing these issues with a Patient under going my treatment
for MS, the reply to my question...
“Why
do treatments using Placebo pills appear to show about the same
efficacy and sometimes better results as the expensive drugs
developed to combat the disease.”
There was no
delay in answering the reply...
“The Person suffering the disease always, because they are
told, expect side effects. With placebo, there are no side
effects."
Confirming my
belief in just how powerful a chemist our Mind really is.
When researching to write this
page I went on to the internet and looked for sites talking about
studies of studies.
Bandolier came up and it is very
interesting reading, suggesting many times, clinical studies are
often biased towards the company paying for the study, mostly drug
companies. And this
information is from within Medical Circles!
My belief as
illness/Pain is unique as a fingerprint to the Person suffering;
therefore, any outcome to a trial cannot encompass a cure for all
the People all the time, unless the treatment plan is unique to
the Person?
If medicine
treats a thousand People with say ME then the consideration from
trials might be one drug or treatment modality, will or should
effectively cure the symptoms.
The view of The
Pain Relief Therapist is, if the same one thousand People are
treated, then a different regime of treatment is required in each
case, thereby bringing about an effective cure from within the
Person, using their own Immune Systems. Body Chemistry and
replication processes.
Are therefore, studies in the
scheme of things a complete waste of time within the current
knowledge base of our scientists?
When such time as
science brings into the equation, the Mind, its thought process as
a reaction to emotional Childhood Physical or Psychological
Trauma(S) and subsequent chemical secretions, although always
completely in balance, yet always damage the Mind and its further
thought process, attitude and body.
Will we then have. "Evident Based Medicine;" as promised
by our Scientists and Medical teams the world over?
Peter Smith Talking Cures asserts the right to be
recognised as author and Intellectual ©Copyright holder of this
document..
Dated 30th July 2002, Amended 6th April 2009, Amended 28th
January 2011, Amended 26th April 2011. |