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If you have been around Texas comp for a while, you will remember some
interesting treatments prescribed by Texas doctors under the umbrella of things
that might relieve the effects of a work injury. For example, the
Theramed Bed, various iterations of electrical muscle stimulators (aka
transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulators), Vax-D (a spinal decompression
table), exercise bikes, recliners, mattresses, special shoes, hot tubs, and
placebo treatments galore. For those with an eye toward the lesson that
the past predicts the future, an entertaining read is Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure
Everything. Some of the treatments (as we see nowadays),
seemed like good ideas at the time but were later determined either to be weird
and useless or weird and harmful. The common theme, however, is generally
profit, with the treatments often benefiting the doctor more than the patient.
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