Beauty Treatment Research
Clinical trials and published studies on beauty spa treatments — microneedling, chemical peels, PRP, laser therapy, and more — curated with plain-language summaries.
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Medicine2025
Effects of Gua Sha therapy on thoracolumbar fascia thickness and clinical outcomes of patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain: A randomized controlled trial.
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View study →Journal of cosmetic dermatology2025
Comparative Effects of Facial Roller and Gua Sha Massage on Facial Contour, Muscle Tone, and Skin Elasticity: Randomized Controlled Trial.
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View study →Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University2025
Effectiveness of gua sha with Masanggoubang oil in rats with chronic soft tissue injury.
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View study →Annals of dermatology2021
Cutaneous Infection Caused by Skin Coining 'Gua Sha' in Korean Healthy Female.
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View study →Journal of family medicine and primary care2021
Exploring scraping therapy: Contemporary views on an ancient healing - A review.
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View study →Journal of forensic sciences2016
Pitfalls in the Interpretation of Traumatic Socioethnic Practices.
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View study →PeerJ2016
Gua Sha, a press-stroke treatment of the skin, boosts the immune response to intradermal vaccination.
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View study →Complementary therapies in medicine2015
A survey on the prevalence and utilization characteristics of gua sha in the Hong Kong community.
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View study →Complementary therapies in medicine2012
Safety protocols for gua sha (press-stroking) and baguan (cupping).
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View study →The American journal of Chinese medicine2012
Randomized controlled pilot study: pain intensity and pressure pain thresholds in patients with neck and low back pain before and after traditional East Asian "gua sha" therapy.
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View study →Voprosy kurortologii, fizioterapii, i lechebnoi fizicheskoi kultury2011
[The influence of acupuncture on the quality of life and the level of thyroid-stimulating hormone in patients presenting with subclinical hypothyroidism].
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View study →Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE2009
Bioluminescence imaging of heme oxygenase-1 upregulation in the Gua Sha procedure.
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View study →Journal of bodywork and movement therapies2009
Gua sha research and the language of integrative medicine.
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View study →Forschende Komplementarmedizin (2006)2007
[Gua Sha for migraine in inpatient withdrawal therapy of headache due to medication overuse].
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View study →Explore (New York, N.Y.)2007
The effect of Gua Sha treatment on the microcirculation of surface tissue: a pilot study in healthy subjects.
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