Renowned orthopedic surgeon David Hanscom came to the conclusion reached by many of his colleagues in their quiet moments: spinal surgery wasn’t helping his patients, but mostly making them worse.
He then embarked on a radical way of treating his patients that eschewed surgery and focused on where pain—and healing—starts and ends: in the mind itself (see page 56).
Paradigm-shifting new scientific research has now verified what we’ve long seen in our work: that most of the benefit you get from a drug or a placebo has to do with
