Cupping (Hijama) Treatment: Benign or Sinister?
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1From the Rheumatology Department, Luton & Dunstable University Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust, Luton, UK.
Journal of Patient Safety
|March 19, 2015
Abstract:
Cupping treatment is on the rise in the Western world as an alternative medicine modality.We present a hitherto unreported complication of bilateral subdural hemorrhage associated with this therapy, highlighting the need for vigilance in patients presenting with headache because they may get misdiagnosed unless history for such therapies is explored.

