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the ActiPatch reminds me of Inversion Tables.

FDA cleared.... you can find a couple clinical studies that claim it has a beneficial effect.... but doctors and physical therapists won't prescribe or even recommend it.

I just went through some back pain, and I was trying to get the spine specialist and the physical therapist to give me their opinion of inversion tables. When I finally cornered them into concrete answers, they both said they would never recommend, prescribe, or use one -- they said it works for some people but not for others, which in their minds means "placebo effect." The P/T said that in his experience, 50% of users said they saw a benefit and 50% said they got no benefit.

I read some of the clinical studies for inversion tables that claim a benefit. Small sample size, positive albeit slight benefit.... sounds EXACTLY like the ActiPatch clinical trials.

What this means, IMO, is that RecoveryRx is never going to see blockbuster sales. The medical community in the US and Asia is going to view RecoveryRx as "scientifically unproven," just as the medical community in the UK viewed it as "scientifically unproven."

Do inversion tables work? Does the ActiPatch work? As far as I'm concerned, if a device doesn't work for everyone and nobody can give a scientific explanation WHY, then it probably has a placebo effect and little else.

Yes, I saw the little styrofoam pieces dance in Nalepka's video. Unfortunately, the human body is not filled with little styrofoam pieces.