Reiki versus Fakey | A Clinical Trial on Chronic Pain with Harvard and the University of Utah

Adam Hanley· Guest0:02

Something about the Reiki treatment continued to improve symptoms after treatment ended. To me, that's a really incredible [laughs] finding, that two hours of treatment can durably and significantly change people's experience with pain. I honestly didn't expect to see anything here. And so now, like, I, I feel like I'm on the back end, like, scrambling to try to figure out what actually happened.

Ivy Ross· Host0:26

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