Is there really a necessity for double-blind controlled studies for
cerebral palsy--children or adults? In other words, does this population have a
history of improvement from placebo?

If a group of 60-year olds with high blood pressure is told, "here's a pill
that will reduce your blood presure", and they all take it--and it's a
sugar pill--and 75% of them do actually have reduced blood pressure, then
it would be reasonable to say that group of patients had improvement from
placebo.

In a group of cp kids/adults aged 1 to 9 or 99 (or whatever range), have
they ever been given a drug or treatment or food or whatever and been told,
"At 10
treatments/dosages you'll be able to sit up on your own. At 20 treatments
you'll be able to stand unaided. At 30 treatments you'll be able to
walk."--and then has this group then in fact been given the equivalent of a
'sugar pill'--something of no theraputic value, something of no basis in
science--and has this population then improved from placebo?

If there is no history of repeated improvement under placebo, then is there
a necessity for double-blind controlled studies for Hyperbaric Oxygen
Therapy in treating cp?











"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form
of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson, an early advocate of
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
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David Freels
2948 Windfield Circle
Tucker, GA 30084-6714
USA
770/491-6776 (phone and fax)
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