Sentences with phrase «pain than placebo»

A small double blinded study of dogs with moderate to severe osteoarthritis showed that dogs receiving the homeopathic blend Zeel ® (made by Heel) for eight weeks had significantly less pain than their placebo peers, although carprofen was more effective.

Some of the best support for this contention came in 2012, when researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and their colleagues published a meta - analysis of 29 studies involving nearly 18,000 patients, which found that traditional acupuncture produced a somewhat greater reduction in pain than placebo or sham acupuncture.

Clinical studies of glucosamine hydrochloride (glucosamine) and sodium chondroitin sulfate in humans found that, except for a subgroup of participants with moderate - to - severe pain, they had no better effect on joint health or pain than placebos.

Not exact matches

The participants who took acetaminophen consistently rated pain — both emotional and physical, and both their own and someone else's — as less severe than those who took the placebo.

While a few studies have indicated that cupping may reduce pain and increase well being, as The New York Times notes there's scant research to determine whether it's anything more than a placebo effect.

Scientists showed placebo pill ingestion is associated with a strong analgesia effect, with more than half of the patients reporting significant pain relief.

In drug trials, some people respond better to placebo injections than to placebo pills; or better to placebos for nausea than to those for pain; or even to one color pill than to another.

Yesterday, at the annual American College of Rheumatology meeting in Atlanta, Ga., researchers announced the results of a double - blind, randomized trial in more than 600 patients: tasocitinib eased pain and inflammation in 65.7 percent of those who received the highest dose of the drug, whereas only 26.7 percent of those who received a placebo reported relief.

The researchers found that neither naproxen combined with oxycodone / acetaminophen nor naproxen combined with cyclobenzaprine provided better pain relief or better improvement in functional outcomes than naproxen combined with placebo.

Among patients with acute, low back pain presenting to an emergency department, neither the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) naproxen combined with oxycodone / acetaminophen or the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine provided better pain relief or improvement in functional outcomes than naproxen combined with placebo, according to a study in the October 20 issue of JAMA.

In a pilot study involving 13 patients with non-cardiac chest pain, Dr. Schey and his research team found that patients who were given 5 mg of dronabinol twice daily for four weeks fared better than patients who took a placebo, or dummy pill.

Other studies found that hypnotized subjects could resist intense pain for a full minute longer than those who weren't hypnotized, and for 30 seconds longer than those who had been given a placebo painkiller.

Participants who took acetaminophen reported fewer hurt feelings and more resilience to social pain than the subjects receiving the placebo.

Let them know that the little pill they're taking for, say, chronic back pain is actually a placebo, with no more medicine in it than an M&M?

The reduction in pain ratings was substantially greater than those seen in similar studies involving placebo pills, hypnosis, and even morphine and other painkilling drugs, he adds.

The result: The drug «was no more effective than placebo for pain relief in patients with moderate to severe hand pain,» the study authors concluded.

Fifteen of the trials found that it worked better than a placebo for pain relief and four trials found that it improved patients sleep.

The group that was taking caffeine reported significantly less pain than the participants in the other group who took a placebo.

«A 2012 study found that fennel seed was more effective than a placebo for controlling severe menstrual pain.