Replies to post #10532 on Calmare Therapeutics Inc (fka CTTC)

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Key Point:

Doctors say that spinal stimulators are an effective way to significantly reduce pain caused by nerve damage, and can even help patients reduce their dependence on pain medication.

A Medtronic-funded study found that spinal stimulators in combination with conventional medical management helped 48% of patients to reduce their pain by 50% or greater after six months, compared to 9% of patients who were treated with conventional medical management alone.

However, a third of stimulator patients experienced device-related complications within one year, and nearly a quarter of patients had to undergo additional surgery to resolve the complications.

[Vaffan-Coulo]

"Calmare works about 80% of the time."???

Have you got randomized, blinded, and controlled studies to demonstrate that calmare's effect is anything other than a PLACEBO?

A hah! I thought so!

Which, of course, means that those precious third party reimbursers could NOT care LESS!

And it is rather odd, isn't it, that what with it working 80% of the time, about the ONLY place you can find patients to testify to its effectiveness is courtesy of people trying to make money off of the thing?