Sports medicine seems to forget about the placebo effect.<p>I&#x27;ve seen players, weekend warriors, even former amateur athletes trying to improve injury recovery times&#x2F;performance with procedures, folklore, gadgets, or just &quot;This is what my coach said&quot;.<p>I believe we need to get the strong science into sports medicine.  And when pointed to studies, they are like studies
done in too many psychology studies--&quot;The study compared twenty athletes to blah, and no follow up with larger objective studies.<p>The athlete is the perfect candidate for placebo cures, in so many cases.<p>Sports medicine seems to hurt a lot of athletes with the whole, &quot;Hay--it works!&quot;.  Yea, and it kills, and shortens life spans in athletes(professional) too?&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t want to argue, but I believe Lance Armstrong won most of those wins with the placebo effect.<p>Yea--scream all you want.  Lance didn&#x27;t come across as that knowledgable.  He belived everything those doctors were telling him.<p>I&#x27;ll never forget something his Italian doctor said when he was being roasted over all the drugs.  I won&#x27;t  get the quote right, but it was after all the villagers&#x2F;authorities busted the two of them.  Lance one one race without anything in his system.  He might have had blood transfusions?  It doesn&#x27;t matter, his doctor said, &quot;Lance won on the placebo effect! Probally all along?&quot;<p>Not one reporter asked what the placebo effect was.  I have a weird feeling most of those drugs were hampering his performance.  But the super powers of that placebo effect were magic?