Evaluation of Wet Cupping Therapy: Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials
| Autor: | Meshari Alqaed, Imen Sohaibani, Paul Posadzki, Mohamed Khalil, Tamer Aboushanab, Gazzaffi I. M. Ali, Abdullah M N Al Bedah |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Alternative medicine Psychological intervention law.invention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Randomized controlled trial law medicine Humans Carpal tunnel syndrome Bloodletting Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease Low back pain 030205 complementary & alternative medicine Clinical trial Complementary and alternative medicine Migraine Physical therapy Medicine Traditional Headaches medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.). 22(10) |
| ISSN: | 1557-7708 |
| Popis: | Wet cupping is a widely used traditional therapy in many countries, which justifies a continuous scientific evaluation of its efficacy and safety.To perform a systematic review to critically evaluate and update the available evidence of wet cupping in traditional and complementary medicine.Ten electronic databases were searched from their inceptions to February 2016. Included studies were randomized clinical trials (RCTs) that evaluated wet cupping against any type of control interventions in patients with any clinical condition, as well as healthy individuals. Cochrane risk of bias tool was used to appraise the included RCTs.Fourteen RCTs met the eligibility criteria. The included studies evaluated the following clinical conditions: nonspecific low back pain (NSLBP), hypertension, brachialgia, carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), chronic neck pain, metabolic syndrome, migraine headaches, oxygen saturation in smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and oral and genital ulcers due to Behçet disease. Two RCTs evaluated physiologic and biochemical parameters of healthy individuals. Overall, 9 RCTs favored wet cupping over various control interventions in NSLBP (n = 2), hypertension (n = 1), brachialgia (n = 1), CTS (n = 1), chronic neck pain (n = 2), oxygen saturation in smokers with COPD (n = 1), and oral and genital ulcers due to Behçet disease (n = 1). Five RCTs showed no statistically significant between-group differences: NSLBP (n = 1), metabolic syndrome (n = 1), migraine headaches (n = 1), and physiologic and biochemical parameters of healthy individuals (n = 2). Included RCTs had a variable risk of bias across all domains and suffered methodologic limitations.There is a promising evidence in favor of the use of wet cupping for musculoskeletal pain, specifically NSLBP, neck pain, CTS, and brachialgia. Better-quality trials are needed to generate solid evidence and firmly inform policy makers. |
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