I didn’t know about the poor ‘blinding’ for the placebo. PRT is new and hasn’t been replicated yet, but it does consist of components that have some broader backing. The first main element is pain neuroscience education, which seems to have various supporting studies going back for a longer time. The second is somatic tracking, a type of mindfulness approach. I haven’t looked into it much, but I think I saw somewhere that similar/equivalent therapies have been tested for chronic pain elsewhere—though I’m not sure if they were tested to reduce pain or just helping people live with pain.
I didn’t know about the poor ‘blinding’ for the placebo. PRT is new and hasn’t been replicated yet, but it does consist of components that have some broader backing. The first main element is pain neuroscience education, which seems to have various supporting studies going back for a longer time. The second is somatic tracking, a type of mindfulness approach. I haven’t looked into it much, but I think I saw somewhere that similar/equivalent therapies have been tested for chronic pain elsewhere—though I’m not sure if they were tested to reduce pain or just helping people live with pain.