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I agree with @heisenberg34, I think there are too many and new ones keep popping up everyday. That's why we need to do our own research. Here are a few links that I have used in the past to evaluate treatments.
Quazar's guidance about avoiding scams and snake oil cures
-- https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-to-avoid-quacks-and-snake-oil-treatments/
FDA's Health Fraud Page
-- https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ProtectYourself/HealthFraud/ucm539101.htm
NIH's National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) which offers guidance about integrative health and how to evaluate it.
-- https://nccih.nih.gov/health/decisions
-- https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/pain
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I agree 100%. I learned several years ago that you have to be your own best advocate. This was after two orthopedic surgeons told me point blank after briefly scanning my records and MRI, "There's nothing else that can be done. Just learn to live with it". If I had listened to them, I would likely be in a nursing home or dead. Get second, even third, opinions. Doctors are not super heroes for the most part.