Hi Ren. Please read this article for your answer:

http://flowingzen.com/19278/which-qigong-exercise-should-you-practice-for-insert-problem/

Thanks for your reply.
Yes, the placebo effect is a very interesting subject.
I’m not sure how credible dr. Mercola is, but here there is his article I’ve just found on the placebo effect in regards to arthroscopic knee surgery: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/02/07/arthroscopic-knee-surgery.aspx

The trouble, though, is that sometimes with injured tendons, ligaments or cartilage it’s almost impossible to do even very simple and basic exercises, be it qigong or something else. E.g., a person with shoulder labrum tear can’t even do Lifting the sky as any lifting of the arms up may cause severe pain.
I’ve experienced that myself, due to an old neck-shoulder injury any arms lifting above the head can cause at least some discomfort and sometimes quite a pain. (But it feels quite pleasant to do some boxing uppercut punching series, slowly and with awareness – kinda in a qigong spirit… My own spontaneous invention 🙂 )

Hi Igor. I’ve asked myself the same question for many years. What I know from experience is that, after practicing Qigong for a while, students with meniscus tears are able to do things that surprise their doctors. Variable to squat and do things that Western medicine says they shouldn’t be able to do. Whether the meniscus is regrowing, I cannot say.

Keep in mind, however, that there are clinical trials where they did placebo knee surgery for torn tendons. Those people receiving the fake knee surgery healed almost as well as those receiving real surgery. Mind blowing stuff!

That’s plenty impressive!

Agreed.

While I would like to say that I can snap my fingers and warp reality, I am simply not at that level of personal evolution yet, however, I can say that. like you, I was once a very depressed person but began doing the smiling from the heart slowly at first then up to an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening every day.

After a year of that, my skin smoothed out, my depression vanished, my energy level soared, my joints got stronger, my vision cleared, my sex drive went through the roof, and all in all I have become much happier person after about a 10 year period of chronic depression.

…but, if that’s not impressive enough, if I ever get to the point where I can regrow limbs at will I’ll let you know lol

That’s certainly a fantastic story, James. Actually, I’ve heard similar stories. However, I have no personal experience with such things. Although I remain open to amazing possibilities, I prefer to stay in the realm of direct experience. The things I’ve personally seen and experienced are magical enough!