ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2020
Effect of Pressures and Durations of Cupping Therapy on Skin Blood Flow Responses.
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- Impact of wet and dry cupping therapy on endurance, perceived wellness, and exertion in recreational male runners.Sports medicine and health science · 2026Article
- Duration-dependent effects of dry cupping on autonomic modulation and trapezius tissue compliance in smartphone users: a dose-finding study.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
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- Wet healing and Chinese medicine cupping can be used to form collateral circulation in diabetic foot artery occlusion: a case report.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Wavelet Phase Coherence Analysis of Oxyhemoglobin and DeoxyHemoglobin Oscillations to Investigate the Relationship Between Cups of Cupping Therapy.Journal of biophotonics · 2025Article
- Wet-Cupping's Impact on Pancreatitis Induced by Hypertriglyceridemia: A case study and brief literature review.Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2024Review
- The impact of wet cupping on haematological and inflammatory parameters in a sample of Jordanian team players.Heliyon · 2024Article
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- Effect of negative pressure therapy on the treatment response to scar thickness and viscoelasticity.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Using texture analysis of ultrasound images to assess the effect of cupping therapy on muscle quality of the triceps.PloS one · 2024Article
- Using cross-correlation analysis of multi-channel near infrared spectroscopy to assess the hemodynamic response to cupping therapy.Biomedical optics express · 2023Article
- Infrared thermal imaging-based skin temperature response during cupping at two different negative pressures.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Effect of durations and pressures of cupping therapy on muscle stiffness of triceps.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Effects of Muscle Fatigue and Recovery on Complexity of Surface Electromyography of Biceps Brachii.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Immediate and Delayed Effects of Cupping Therapy on Reducing Neuromuscular Fatigue.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cupping therapy has been widely used in treating musculoskeletal impairments. However, there is no specific guideline on selecting the intensity of cupping therapy, including the pressure and duration. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of different pressures and durations of cupping therapy on skin blood flow responses. A 2 × 2 factorial design, including two negative pressures at -225 and -300 mmHg and two durations at 5 and 10 min, was tested in 12 healthy participants. The four protocols of cupping therapy were tested in four different days. Skin blood flow was measured using laser Doppler flowmetry on the left triceps (the SJ12 acupoint). Skin blood flow after cupping therapy was expressed as a ratio of skin blood flow before cupping therapy. The results showed that -300 mmHg caused a significant increase in peak skin blood flow (16.7 ± 2.6 times) compared to -225 mmHg (11.1 ± 2.2 times,
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