Sports medicine seems to forget about the placebo effect. I've seen players, weekend warriors, even former amateur athletes trying to improve injury recovery t

Sports medicine seems to forget about the placebo effect. I've seen players, weekend warriors, even former amateur athletes trying to improve injury recovery times/performance with procedures, folklore, gadgets, or just "This is what my coach said". I believe we need to get the strong science into sports medicine. And when pointed to studies, they are like studies done in too many psychology studies--"The study compared twenty athletes to blah, and no follow up with larger objective studies. The athlete is the perfect candidate for placebo cures, in so many cases. Sports medicine seems to hurt a lot of athletes with the whole, "Hay--it works!". Yea, and it kills, and shortens life spans in athletes(professional) too?" I don't want to argue, but I believe Lance Armstrong won most of those wins with the placebo effect. Yea--scream all you want. Lance didn't come across as that knowledgable. He belived everything those doctors were telling him. I'll never forget something his Italian doctor said when he was being roasted over all the drugs. I won't get the quote right, but it was after all the villagers/authorities busted the two of them. Lance one one race without anything in his system. He might have had blood transfusions? It doesn't matter, his doctor said, "Lance won on the placebo effect! Probally all along?" Not one reporter asked what the placebo effect was. I have a weird feeling most of those drugs were hampering his performance. But the super powers of that placebo effect were magic?