However, complications such as injury and infections can happen, so it is important to get
cupping therapy from a qualified practitioner.
Not exact matches
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from Kyoto University and the University of North Carolina, which further validates the company's ongoing clinical research using dermal sheath
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Research for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder showed that cutting out coffee
from the diet eliminated anxiety within a week in people who previously showed no improvements with medications or
therapy and were drinking 1 1/2 to 3 1/2
cups of coffee per day.
First, it's hard to come up with a physical placebo for acupuncture or
cupping therapy that can isolate the belief that you've had improvement
from the treatment itself.
Cupping is essentially a form of body work or
therapy that uses suction
from the
cups to achieve the desired results.
In a 2015 study, researchers
from Germany tested whether
cupping therapy worked better than a sham treatment for patients with fibromyalgia, a chronic disorder that causes widespread pain, tenderness and muscle stiffness.
Regardless of whether
cupping therapy's perceived benefits result
from a physiological effect or a placebo effect, the
therapy could still be useful for some people, Bauer said.
Those marks — bruises, in fact — were the result of
cupping therapy, an ancient healing practice
from Asia that uses
cups to reduce muscle pain and increase circulation.