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Efficacy of cupping therapy in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome-a randomised placebo controlled trial
This study aimed to test the efficacy of cupping therapy to improve symptoms and quality of life in patients diagnosed with the fibromyalgia syndrome. Participants were randomly assigned to cupping therapy, sham or usual care. Cupping was administered five times at twice weekly intervals on the uppe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5112514/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27853272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep37316 |
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author | Lauche, Romy Spitzer, Julia Schwahn, Barbara Ostermann, Thomas Bernardy, Kathrin Cramer, Holger Dobos, Gustav Langhorst, Jost |
author_facet | Lauche, Romy Spitzer, Julia Schwahn, Barbara Ostermann, Thomas Bernardy, Kathrin Cramer, Holger Dobos, Gustav Langhorst, Jost |
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description | This study aimed to test the efficacy of cupping therapy to improve symptoms and quality of life in patients diagnosed with the fibromyalgia syndrome. Participants were randomly assigned to cupping therapy, sham or usual care. Cupping was administered five times at twice weekly intervals on the upper and lower back. The primary outcome measure was pain intensity at day 18. Secondary outcomes included functional disability, quality of life, fatigue and sleep quality as well as pressure pain sensitivity, satisfaction and safety at day 18 and 6 months. Altogether 141 patients were included in this study (139 females, 55.8 ± 9.1 years). After 18 days patients reported significant less pain after cupping compared to usual care (difference −12.4; 95% CI: −18.9; −5.9, p < 0.001) but not compared to sham (difference −3.0; 95% CI: −9.9, 3.9, p = 0.396). Further effects were found for quality of life compared to usual care. Patients were mildly satisfied with cupping and sham cupping; and only minor side effects were observed. Despite cupping therapy being more effective than usual care to improve pain intensity and quality of life, effects of cupping therapy were small and comparable to those of a sham treatment, and as such cupping cannot be recommended for fibromyalgia at the current time. |
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spelling | pubmed-51125142016-11-23 Efficacy of cupping therapy in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome-a randomised placebo controlled trial Lauche, Romy Spitzer, Julia Schwahn, Barbara Ostermann, Thomas Bernardy, Kathrin Cramer, Holger Dobos, Gustav Langhorst, Jost Sci Rep Article This study aimed to test the efficacy of cupping therapy to improve symptoms and quality of life in patients diagnosed with the fibromyalgia syndrome. Participants were randomly assigned to cupping therapy, sham or usual care. Cupping was administered five times at twice weekly intervals on the upper and lower back. The primary outcome measure was pain intensity at day 18. Secondary outcomes included functional disability, quality of life, fatigue and sleep quality as well as pressure pain sensitivity, satisfaction and safety at day 18 and 6 months. Altogether 141 patients were included in this study (139 females, 55.8 ± 9.1 years). After 18 days patients reported significant less pain after cupping compared to usual care (difference −12.4; 95% CI: −18.9; −5.9, p < 0.001) but not compared to sham (difference −3.0; 95% CI: −9.9, 3.9, p = 0.396). Further effects were found for quality of life compared to usual care. Patients were mildly satisfied with cupping and sham cupping; and only minor side effects were observed. Despite cupping therapy being more effective than usual care to improve pain intensity and quality of life, effects of cupping therapy were small and comparable to those of a sham treatment, and as such cupping cannot be recommended for fibromyalgia at the current time. Nature Publishing Group 2016-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5112514/ /pubmed/27853272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep37316 Text en Copyright © 2016, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Lauche, Romy Spitzer, Julia Schwahn, Barbara Ostermann, Thomas Bernardy, Kathrin Cramer, Holger Dobos, Gustav Langhorst, Jost Efficacy of cupping therapy in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome-a randomised placebo controlled trial |
title | Efficacy of cupping therapy in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome-a randomised placebo controlled trial |
title_full | Efficacy of cupping therapy in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome-a randomised placebo controlled trial |
title_fullStr | Efficacy of cupping therapy in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome-a randomised placebo controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Efficacy of cupping therapy in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome-a randomised placebo controlled trial |
title_short | Efficacy of cupping therapy in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome-a randomised placebo controlled trial |
title_sort | efficacy of cupping therapy in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome-a randomised placebo controlled trial |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5112514/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27853272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep37316 |
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