Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not. Four months in on a second opinion and it lines up.

An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.

Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.

Loose evidence and no evidence are different, and people overcorrect in both directions.

You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.

A plausible mechanism is not an outcome, and this class is the textbook example.