Abstract
Beginning by exploring the historical links between physiotherapy and placebo, we examine how placebo research can help physiotherapy. Focusing on three original contributions, we look at how placebo treatments work and how placebo effects might be used in clinics by modulating contextual factors. The first study demonstrates that open placebos are non-inferior to deceptive placebos. The second examines the acceptability of placebo treatments and the third how physiotherapists use placebo effects in their daily work by manipulating contextual factors. We close by examining at the importance of placebo research in the design of relevant control groups in rehabilitation research. Taken together, these results reflect on the epistemological basis for determining the efficacy of physiotherapy, and motivate the practice of ethical physiotherapy rooted in an in-depth understanding of placebo effects and contextual factors.
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