The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
that rubbing is not a coincidental thing it activates a set of uh touch sensors that are that respond to kind of broad dull touch um and that actively inhibits through the release of an inhibitory neurotransmitter the fibers that control the pain signal
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And tell me if this is still considered correct and then I'll let you elaborate on it. But I think that is an opportunity for us to also talk more generally or for you to educate us more generally on the mechanistic interventions for pain. Maybe massage above or below the site of pain.