chico chupacabra wrote:
> wrote:
>
> >>>>This is the site of a lobbying organization for foot
> >>>>massagers. They have no credibility.
> >>>>
> >>>>There are no legitimate clinical studies that show
> >>>>*any* directly therapeutic effect of foot rubbing for
> >>>>any medical ailment. At best, foot massage has a
> >>>>palliative effect on the fraud victim's mental state.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Those last two sentences are contradictory.
> >>
> >>No, shev, they aren't. Palliative benefits from touch therapies like
> >>massage (back, feet, whatever) may make it easier to live with
> >>migraines, but they don't cure migraines.
> >
> > You're saying a palliative benefit is not a direct therapeutic effect?
>
> No, because the underlying cause/issue remains.
>
> >>>If a placebo can show direct therapeutic effect, and they often do, I'm
> >>>sure a foot massage would be that much better.
> >>
> >>No better than music, laughter, or pets:
> >>LAUGHTER
> >>http://tinyurl.com/e2mn
> >>http://tinyurl.com/e2mv
> >>
> >>MUSIC
> >>http://tinyurl.com/e2nb
> >>http://tinyurl.com/e2nf
> >>
> >>ANIMALS/PETS
> >>http://tinyurl.com/e2nn
> >>http://tinyurl.com/e2ns
> >
> > Good point.
>
> I try only to make that kind.
>
> > I imagine your original foot massage advocate would also
> > agree..
>
> She doesn't. She's a true-believer in reflexology.
>

Why would a true believer in reflexology deny that music, laughter, and
proximity to other animals could also have healthful effects?

> > we all have quite different nervous, endochrine, etc. systems
> > as well as comforts and whatever floats your boat as they say.
>
> But we don't allow people to make unfounded, untrue statements about
> medical procedures or potions. That's supposed to include flim-flam BS
> like "alternative medicine."
>

You don't allow people to make unfounded, untrue statements about
medical procedures? I can't think of any other field where such
statements are more rampant, and they have been for millenia. Good
luck with that. Don't forget to include flim-flam BS like allopathic
medicine, drug pushers ("legal"), and "traditional medicine".

> > Just remember that past results are no guarantee of future performance
> > etc.
>
> Read LesLIE's posts again and you'll see that she's a true-believer who
> claims it's a cure-all.
>

If she's a foot-fetishist I've got no problem with that. If she claims
it will work for everyone I do.

Cheers -