Here are some much anticipated, but long overdue, updates about my ACL recovery (see healacl.com and my previous posts: Kicking off the New Year with a “Bang!”, Breaking Away from the Path Well Traveled, and The Paradox of Placebo) Now that I’m up and running, and done dealing with my bracing protocol, and busy getting…
After almost 2 decades of clinical research in the areas of pain and Parkinson’s disease, I have come to strongly believe that the placebo effect (and it’s opposite: nocebo) are way too often underestimated and under-appreciated. In the studies I was involved with (for pain and for Parkinson’s disease), placebo was a significant effect that…
This is a follow-up to my post from Jan 16. Why, you might ask, am I in a surgical brace now, despite being able to walk just fine 2 weeks ago? A lot has happened (especially in my head) over the last couple of weeks, but first, let me step back a bit to the…
Happy New Year! I hope your year is off to a better start than mine. This is how I got down the hill at the end of my last day of skiing for 2025. After 43 years of skiing, with hypermobile joints and a love for powder and moguls, I was really very lucky to…