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Just as well. the study aims to test the treatment at more than two dozen hospitals around the united states on more than 300 patients. we caught up with gerald carpman nine weeks after his procedure. he's back to walking four miles a day. what he doesn't know, though, is whether he actually got stem cells or just a dummy treatment, a placebo. that won't be revealed until the end of the trial. probably late next year. along with answers that could spell hope or disappointment for millions of patients. >> if you have the placebo effect, it may be the stem cells, i don't know. i haven't thought ...

Was a placebo, they reported pain relief, and so explain that? >> right, rig right. and this is going back to the placebo effect concept here that we are talking about. this is one study, and we certainly need a lot more information and studies to be done, but it is certainly an important piece of information to add to the growing body of knowledge. it talks to the patient expectations. and again, one of the conclusions or one of the findings showed of the study that when the patients had positive expectations, not only did the medication increase in the effectiveness, but the placebo did as w...

Medications and the effectiveness of them? i mean, is there a way to apply what we know from the study to find the placebo effect in other medicines? >> okay. well, that is a great question, and you know, the placebo effect is once again the idea that the substance which has no known medical effect causes a change in symptoms and patients and it is individual thing, but once again, going back to the study, one of the things that the study talked about is expectations. when the patients had positive expectations about what they were going to take, they tended to have an improvement in the sympt...

Substance that has no known medical effect, and the placebo effect is one ta has been studied in the past and it is a phenomenon that the patients may take a placebo and still experience a change in the symptoms, and that is what we are talking about with this particular study. in fact, the study took it one step further, and looked at patient's expectations. a and the study was built up with 66 people involved, and they were migraine sufferers, and they were given a placebo or migraine medication or sometimes a pill they didn't know what it was, and the researchers found a number of things, b...

Occur, what kind of damage are you doing in terms of exercise. >> literally i'm an aging athlete. you have chronic pain, things hurt. i want that quick fix. the doctor says we can do the surgery. people jump at it with their backs, knees, shoulders but it's not always the best thing. >> let's also remember this was a one-year follow-up. we don't know what will happen five years down the road. it's one study. >> fascinating. >> where you see that placebo effect from surgery? >> there have been a few. it's not easy to sign people up for a sham surgery trial. they did it in finland. good for them...