Power Balance Bracelet
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You see thats where your bracelet has gone the **** wrong my man, those pie in the sky claims cant hold a candle to my tried and trusted dick growing routine!
what are you referring to Sea-bands or Power-bands.
My GP gave me the sea-bands and they worked, there are also clinical studies that support Acupressure.
http://www.seaband.dk/files/Undersoegelser/The_Sea-Band_Trial_Summaries_travel.pdf
http://www.sea-band.com/for-medical-professionals
I was hugely sceptical, but within minutes of wearing them the sickness was gone, and taking them off, within minutes the sickness returned.
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Im sure these were on either watchdog or something and they sare genuinely fake. They provide no performance advantages whatsoever, only mental support im afraid.
Again there is a lot of conflicting evidence, firstly on that first study there is a very good chance of the placebo effect as the patients knew that they were wearing the band.
Here is some more conflicting evidence
Myth Busters episode
Study with recduced placebo effect
Report on Accupressure
It's pretty controversial but most of the evidence points towards it being a complete placebo effect, there are other theories but it seems most likely to be a placebo effect. Even the last study admitted that the placebo effect can be more effective than normal medicine, it is certainly feasible that this is the case.
So you can continue to be the laughing stock of your local gym I assume?
Well someone has t do it.
Yeah, these things do nothing, they never have done anything and they never will do anything, they are a First Class, Grade A scam and anyone who buys one under the assumption they will make any difference to their performance besides the possible placebo effect which comes about via their own stupidity deserves to be sectioned. No exceptions.
Maybe, but the point being that placebo or not, it works for me and I had no expectation that it would, in fact I thought the whole thing was a nonsense, until I tried them.
Although there seems plenty of evidence that acupressure on the P6 acupuncture point has an effect.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1291716/pdf/jrsocmed00159-0026.pdf
http://www.complementarytherapiesinmedicine.com/article/0965-2299(94)90002-7/abstract
I still have no idea what Power bands are supposed to do though.
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It's very simple, they balance money against human stupidity.
In reality, they do nothing, nothing at all, end of.
I mean come on, ever the makers of the thing have admitted its tosh, it's on their website http://www.powerbalance.com/australia/CA
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Soldato
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they might be placebo but they work, so if your buying something to improve your performance and it does what it says, wheres the issue?
Did you find it helped with your 'power' and/or 'balance'?
Do you really believe the Trion:Z does anything for you?
Improve your 'power' and 'balance' - I believe they used to make more specific claims but have got into trouble with advertising authorities and faced lawsuits. As with a lot of pseudo science I guess its probably best to keep things general as specific claims can quite obviously be tested and unlike the other sea sickness bracelets mentioned I'd personally doubt that even the manufacturers of these 'power balance' bracelets believe that a hologram can do anything.
Tis like detox kits - bit of a fad amongst women these days yet producers of 'detox' products are generaly quite careful to not specify exactly what 'toxins' their kits/products remove from the body else it would be rather straightforward for someone to test and subsequently debunk their claims.
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Nope. And I don't really care if it does or does not.