Exploring scraping therapy: Contemporary views on an ancient healing – A review [PDF]
Gua sha is a traditional healing technique that aims to create petechiae on the skin for a believed therapeutic benefit. Natural healings are mostly based on repeated observations and anecdotal information.
Eric Chun Pu Chu +3 more
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Scraping Therapy Improved Muscle Regeneration through Regulating GLUT4/Glycolytic and AMPK/mTOR/4EBP1 Pathways in Rats with Lumbar Multifidus Injury [PDF]
Background. High morbidity of nonspecific low back pain (NLBP) and large consumption of medical resources caused by it have become a heavy social burden. There are many factors inducing NLBP, among which the damage and atrophy of multifidus (MF) are most
Bin Zou +7 more
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Clinical effect of scraping therapy in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis
Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of scraping therapy in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis. Materials and Methods: A total of eighty patients with knee osteoarthritis were assigned to the moxibustion group and the ...
Jin-Rong WEI +5 more
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Review of Scraping Therapy (Kerokan) as a Traditional Therapy in Medical Aspects
Scraping therapy, also known as kerokan, is a traditional therapy practiced in East Asia for conditions like the common cold and musculoskeletal pain.
Lisa Nurhasanah +2 more
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Objective To investigate the effect of holographic meridian scraping therapy combined with auricular bloodletting therapy in the treatment of elderly patients with primary hypertension. Methods Totally 60 elderly patients with primary hypertension were
ZHEN Chao (郑超) +2 more
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Scraping Therapy and Muscle Resistance Training in Patients with Neck Dysfunction
Objective:To investigate the effect of muscle resistance training and scraping therapy on patients with neck dysfunction and evaluate the treatment effect and follow-up effect so as to research on the mechanism of neck dysfunction.Methods:Gave one time ...
Yucheng DUAN +5 more
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The effects of scraping therapy on local temperature and blood perfusion volume in healthy subjects. [PDF]
Objective.We aim to study the therapeutic effects of scraping by investigating the changes of temperature and local blood perfusion volume in healthy subjects after scraping stimulation, and to explore the mechanism of scraping stimulation from the points of microcirculation and energy metabolism.Methods.Twenty-three health subjects were included in ...
Xu QY +5 more
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Scraping therapy for knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and Meta-analysis. [PDF]
To systematically evaluate the efficacy of scraping therapy on knee osteoarthritis (KOA).A computerized search was conducted in several databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database, China Science and Technology Journal Database, Wanfang, and Chinese BioMedical Literature Database, from ...
Dandan C +4 more
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Effect of back scraping therapy on the treatment of pruritus (背部刮痧治疗皮肤瘙痒效果观察)
Objective To observe the effect of back scraping therapy on the treatment of pruritus symptoms in patients with pruritic skin diseases.Methods Totally 18 patients with pruritic skin diseases were treated with back scraping treatment, and the effect was
LI Zhijia (李志家)
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To explore effect of scraping and moxibustion therapy for a breast cancer patient with COVID-19 in convalescence. On the basis of Traditional Chinese Medicine syndrome differentiation, the Du meridian (Dazhui) and the bladder meridian (Feishu, Pishu) of ...
YAN Kang (严康) +2 more
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