Placebo Effect and a cool story

   A while back there was a thread in here on the placebo effect..I utilize it as much as possible. Because it helps....I had a client a while back that was hurt on the job..An oil worker here in Alaska.. His company sent him in to town to have his back checked out by the doctors...he was in his late twenties.. His wife set him up  with a massage at the spa where I work in hopes of giving him some relief until his doctors appointment the next day.. He randomly got me as his therapist.. He was really hurting.  He was guarded with his walk. And moved very slowly. Clearly in pain. Not happy. I could see fear in him...When I have an injured client like that... I wanna use everything in my massage armamentation tool kit in order to help them.. The first thing I did was show him a letter from a doctor that said I cured him of debilitating back pain in one session.  His eyes got big when he saw that the letter was dated 1986.   I told him that Ive done 50,000 massages sense them(not quite sure about that number )... And that I'm highly skilled at what I do now.. And that he is going to feel much better if not pain free after this session.  He said wow.. Im glad I got you.  I really had know idea if I could help him or not.. But I wanted the placebo effect on my side.  Anyway, I did a complete trigger point scan.. I found three really bad trigger points... One on each side of his spinal erectors at the L5 level . And another on his left SI joint.... He was hurting bad in  those areas... I told him we will release his SI joint pain first by initiating the reciprocal inhibition reflex.... I then went to the inside of his right knee, torqued the tissue, and to his amazement his left SI joint pain vanished.  I then told him that there is a relationship between the low back and neck.. I then torqued the tissue on the right side of his neck at the C5 level. And his right low back pain vanished.. He was freaked out.. I then went to the left side of his neck at the C5 level.. did the same thing.. And his left low back pain vanished.. He got up off the table and was freaked out...His pain was gone!..He was amazed and happy.. He opened his wallet and tipped me $70.00 cash..   The doctors checked him out the next day...and he went back to work...Ive been high off of that sense then.. When I first started doing massage 27 years ago.. I would of been afraid to work on someone like him.. I cant help everybody like that of course. But that made me feel good. Really good.