Sham surgery (or placebo surgery) is a faked surgical intervention that omits the step thought to be therapeutically necessary. In clinical trials of surgical...

Look up Sham or sham in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sham may refer to: Al-Sham or Shām (شام), is the Arabic term for the Greater Syria region, that...

defined as a sham medical treatment. Common placebos include inert tablets (like sugar pills), inert injections (like saline), sham surgery, and other procedures...

Järvinen TL (December 26, 2013). "Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy versus Sham Surgery for a Degenerative Meniscal Tear". The New England Journal of Medicine...

treatments. A subsequent research trial showed that surgery was no more effective than sham surgery, where patients only received a skin incision, although...

recipients of sham treatments and may be denied effective treatments. There is a possibility that patients only agree to invasive surgery (which carry...

"AAV2-GAD gene therapy for advanced Parkinson's disease: a double-blind, sham-surgery controlled, randomised trial". The Lancet. Neurology. 10 (4): 309–19...

"AAV2-GAD gene therapy for advanced Parkinson's disease: a double-blind, sham-surgery controlled, randomised trial". The Lancet. Neurology. 10 (4): 309–319...

researchers, technicians, data analysts, and evaluators. In some cases, sham surgery may be necessary to achieve blinding. During the course of an experiment...

compared surgery to sham surgery. 57% of the surgery group experienced complete elimination of migraine headaches, compared on only 4% of the sham surgery group...