Our goal was simply to achieve a difference between real stimulation and occupational therapy and sham stimulation and occupational therapy, and so we limited therapy to just 5 days.

我们的目的只是想证实‘真实电刺激加职业疗法’与‘虚拟电刺激加职业疗法’治疗后的差异，所以我们把治疗时间限定到仅5天。

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Massage was compared to an inert therapy (sham treatment) in 2 studies that showed that massage was superior for pain and function on both short- and long-term follow-ups.

这两项研究中表明对长期和短期的患者按摩都优于其他方法，其中将按摩与惰性疗法比较。

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But the fact that even the participants receiving the sham acupuncture therapy reported some relief of their symptoms suggests that a strong placebo effect may be responsible for at least part of the improvement.

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