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Flash cupping has the ability to relieve CLBP; nevertheless, its impact on CLBP and the likely mechanism of action have not been studied.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>OBJECTIVE:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The goal of this study was to assess the impact of a single, brief cupping session on CLBP and low back muscle activity using multichannel surface electromyography (sEMG).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>METHODS:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this randomized controlled trial, 24\u00a0patients with CLBP were enrolled and randomly assigned to the control group (treated by acupuncture) and cupping group (treated by acupuncture and flash cupping). Acupuncture was applied on the shen shu (BL23), dachang shu (BL25), and wei zhong (BL40) acupoints in both the groups. A brief cupping treatment was applied to the shen shu (BL23), qihai shu (BL24), dachang shu (BL25), guanyuan shu (BL26), and xiaochang shu (BL27) acupoints on both sides of the lower back in the cupping group. The numeric rating scale (NRS) was used to assess therapy efficacy for lower back pain (LBP) before and after treatment. Surface EMG data collected during symmetrical trunk flexion-extension movements were utilized to measure lower back muscle activity and the effectiveness of LBP therapy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>RESULTS:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      There was no statistically significant difference (\n                      <jats:inline-formula>\n                        <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" alttext=\"P=\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\">\n                          <mml:mrow>\n                            <mml:mi>P<\/mml:mi>\n                            <mml:mo>=<\/mml:mo>\n                            <mml:mi\/>\n                          <\/mml:mrow>\n                        <\/mml:math>\n                      <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                      0.63) in pain intensity between the two groups before and after treatment. There was a statistically significant difference (\n                      <jats:inline-formula>\n                        <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" alttext=\"P=\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\">\n                          <mml:mrow>\n                            <mml:mi>P<\/mml:mi>\n                            <mml:mo>=<\/mml:mo>\n                            <mml:mi\/>\n                          <\/mml:mrow>\n                        <\/mml:math>\n                      <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                      0.04) between the control group and the cupping group in the sEMG topographic map parameter CoGx-To-Midline.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>CONCLUSION:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study established a connection between the action mechanism of flash cupping and enhanced horizontal synchronization of lower back muscular activity.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3233\/bmr-230095","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,26]],"date-time":"2024-01-26T12:15:07Z","timestamp":1706271307000},"page":"617-628","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["A randomized controlled trial investigating the impact of a single flash cupping session on patients with chronic lower back pain using multichannel surface electromyographic assessment"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"Li","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bing-Yao","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiao-Min","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Di","family":"Sang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tian-Hui","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guang-Lin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)","place":["China"]},{"name":"Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory of Human-Machine Intelligence-Synergy Systems","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xue-Mei","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nai-Fu","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)","place":["China"]},{"name":"Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory of Human-Machine Intelligence-Synergy Systems","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5]]},"reference":[{"issue":"2","key":"e_1_3_2_2_2","first-page":"136","article-title":"Evaluation and progress of rehabilitation treatment of low back pain","volume":"32","author":"Yue S","year":"2017","unstructured":"YueS. 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