Capitalizing on the Placebo Component of Treatments

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 284-287

  Beedie, Chris ^a   Foad, Abby ^b   Hurst, Philip ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; FUTUROLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; PLACEBO EFFECT; PSYCHOLOGY; SPORTS MEDICINE; ETHICS; THERAPY;

ATHLETES; HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; SPORTS MEDICINE; THERAPEUTICS;

EID: 84953866925     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0000000000000172     Document Type: Article

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