What is it about?
A randomized controlled study was conducted to evaluate the short- and long-term effects of wet cupping therapy on patients with migraine. Wet cupping therapy, as an additional application to existing treatment, improved the disability status and reduced pain in migraine patients.
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Why is it important?
For the first time in the literature, we evaluated the long term results of wet cupping therapy application in migraine patients and compared with short time results. In conclusion, the continuation of wet cupping therapy was found to be more effective than termination after three successive sessions.
Perspectives
Although wet cupping therapy is a traditional application whose roots go back to the time of Hippocrates, current literature involves limited number of studies about it. Therefore, this article might supply evidence for how and where this traditional application may be beneficial.
Assist. Prof. Suleyman Ersoy
Karabuk Universitesi
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This page is a summary of: Continue or stop applying wet cupping therapy (al-hijamah) in migraine headache:A randomized controlled trial, Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, October 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2019.101065.
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