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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2012, Article ID 429718, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/429718 Research Article The Effect of Traditional Cupping on Pain and Mechanical Thresholds in Patients with Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain: A Randomised Controlled Pilot Study Romy Lauche,1 Holger Cramer,1 Claudia Hohmann,1 Kyung-Eun Choi,1 Thomas Rampp,1 Felix Joyonto Saha,1 Frauke Musial,2 Jost Langhorst,1 and Gustav Dobos1 1 Chair of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Knappschafts-Krankenhaus, Am Deimelsberg 34a, 45276 Essen, Germany 2 Department of Community Medicine, The National Research Centre in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), Faculty of Health Science, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway Correspondence should be addressed to Romy Lauche, r.lauche@kliniken-essen-mitte.de Received 18 August 2011; Revised 7 September 2011; Accepted 13 September 2011 Academic Editor: Gerhard Litscher Copyright © 2012 Romy Lauche et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction. Cupping has been used since antiquity in the treatment of pain conditions. In this pilot study, we investigated the effect of traditional cupping therapy on chronic nonspecific neck pain (CNP) and mechanical sensory thresholds. Methods. Fifty CNP patients were randomly assigned to treatment (TG, n = 25) or waiting list control group (WL, n = 25). TG received a single cupping treatment. Pain at rest (PR), pain related to movement (PM), quality of life (SF-36), Neck Disability Index (NDI), mechanical detection (MDT), vibration