Could be. Expectation effects are extremely powerful when it comes to pain, as you know. Hence the necessity for a blinded study. I don't know which way the cards will fall. Expectation effects for non-pain conditions are quite a bit less reliable so I thought his results there were very unusual.
I'm not aware of any research where a patient's sincere desire to improve has ever impacted outcomes though.
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