Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

The Effect of Traditional Cupping on Pain and Mechanical Thresholds in Patients with Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain: A Randomised Controlled Pilot Study

Table 1

Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of trial groups.
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristicsTG ( )
mean ± SD		WL ( )
mean ± SD		P
Age (years) 0.393
Sex (F/M)18/716/90.544
BMI (kg/m²) 0.203
Pain at rest (PR) 0.810
Average neck pain at baseline (PaDi) 0.552
History of neck pain (years) 0.618
Expected effectiveness of cupping therapy
(VAS from 0 = not effective at all to 100 = highly effective)		 0.448