Effects of ear acupuncture combined with cupping therapy on severity and threshold of chronic back pain and physical disability: A randomized clinical trial
| Autor: | Tamara Gonçalves Rezende Macieira, Caroline de Castro Moura, Hérica Pinheiro Corrêa, Higor Magalhães Silvano, Erika de Cássia Lopes Chaves, Cissa Azevedo, Denise Hollanda Iunes, Gabriela Aparecida Pereira, Tânia Couto Machado Chianca, Denismar Alves Nogueira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Physical disability Cupping therapy business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Traditional Chinese medicine law.invention Clinical trial Complementary and alternative medicine Randomized controlled trial law Back pain medicine Acupuncture Physical therapy sense organs medicine.symptom Brief Pain Inventory business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine. 12:152-161 |
| ISSN: | 2225-4110 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jtcme.2021.07.008 |
| Popis: | Background and aim Chronic back pain causes physical, functional, and emotional disabilities. Traditional Chinese Medicine therapies have been shown as interventions to treat chronic back pain. The present study aimed to clinically evaluate the effects of ear acupuncture combined with cupping therapy on people with chronic back pain. Experimental procedure We conducted an open-label, randomized, parallel-group controlled clinical trial. Following the CONSORT statement recommendations, 198 participants were randomized into ‘ear acupuncture’ and ‘ear acupuncture and cupping therapy’ groups. Data were collected in three different points; before the first session (initial) with the patient, after the last session (final), and seven days after the end of the treatment (follow-up). The Brief Pain Inventory, a digital algometer, and the Rolland Morris Disability Questionnaire were used for data collection. Generalized Estimation Equation model was used to examine the association between the interventions and the primary outcome pain severity. Results Pain severity, pressure pain threshold, and physical disability improved over time in both groups. However, for the patients being treated with both ear acupuncture and cupping therapy, significant changes were seen in pain severity, pain relief, and physical disabilities between the initial and final sessions. For the ‘ear acupuncture and cupping therapy’ group, significant changes were also seen for pain relief and physical disability in the follow-up session. Conclusion Ear acupuncture combined with cupping therapy was shown to be more effective in the treatment of chronic back pain when compared to treatment using only ear acupuncture. |
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