Powerful Mind

Lindsey Vonn, two times Gold and Silver Medalist in World Championship, alpine ski racer is reported wrapping her shin injury with Austrian cheese – topfen – to reduce inflammation. “It is not bizarre at all,” said Ralph Reiff, certified athletic trainer and director of Sports Medicine and Sports Performance for St. Vincent Hospital of Indianapolis, Indiana. There is no scientific research to prove that it works for injuries. However, the placebo effect that plays a major role for the athletes at the highest level of their performances. “Regardless of whether it’s a home remedy or passed down from generations or something someone thought of, if the athlete believes in it, there is significant value in that,” said Reiff.
Reiff recalls a baseball player who used lard on feet for cracking calluses and problem was solved.
If one believes in spreading cheese will work, it will work for them. On the other hand, one can receive the best treatment possible in this world and does not believe in it, then it will not work.
"The physician's belief in the treatment and the patient's faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a powerful remedy that is almost guaranteed to produce an improvement and sometimes a cure." -- Petr Skrabanek and James McCormick, Follies and Fallacies in Medicine, p. 13.