Cupping for patients with chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Low back pain, neck pain and other musculoskeletal disorders are among the ten leading causes of years lived with disability worldwide in 2016.12 Despite the wide range of treatments and health care resources devoted to low back pain, back-related disability and population burden have increased 10,11,14 and this development has recently called for international action.2 Since the US opioid crisis, the value of analgesics in general and of opioids in particular in the treatment of chronic pain is under discussion.
Source: The Journal of Pain - Category: Materials Science Authors: Tags: Review Article Source Type: research