Exploring patient experiences of participating in a real and sham dry cupping intervention for nonspecific low back pain: A qualitative study

• Hugo Jário Almeida Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Jário Almeida Silva, Mariana Arias Avila, Kamilla Maria Sousa Castro, Yago Tavares Pinheiro, Caio Alano Almeida Lins, Germanna Medeiros Barbosa, Marcelo Cardoso de Souza

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairi, Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz, RN, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2185-4059

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• Mariana Arias Avila ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Jário Almeida Silva, Mariana Arias Avila, Kamilla Maria Sousa Castro, Yago Tavares Pinheiro, Caio Alano Almeida Lins, Germanna Medeiros Barbosa, Marcelo Cardoso de Souza

  Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Physical Therapy Department, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5081-5326

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• Kamilla Maria Sousa Castro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Jário Almeida Silva, Mariana Arias Avila, Kamilla Maria Sousa Castro, Yago Tavares Pinheiro, Caio Alano Almeida Lins, Germanna Medeiros Barbosa, Marcelo Cardoso de Souza

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairi, Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz, RN, Brazil

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• Yago Tavares Pinheiro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Jário Almeida Silva, Mariana Arias Avila, Kamilla Maria Sousa Castro, Yago Tavares Pinheiro, Caio Alano Almeida Lins, Germanna Medeiros Barbosa, Marcelo Cardoso de Souza

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairi, Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz, RN, Brazil

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• Caio Alano Almeida Lins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Jário Almeida Silva, Mariana Arias Avila, Kamilla Maria Sousa Castro, Yago Tavares Pinheiro, Caio Alano Almeida Lins, Germanna Medeiros Barbosa, Marcelo Cardoso de Souza

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairi, Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz, RN, Brazil

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• Germanna Medeiros Barbosa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Jário Almeida Silva, Mariana Arias Avila, Kamilla Maria Sousa Castro, Yago Tavares Pinheiro, Caio Alano Almeida Lins, Germanna Medeiros Barbosa, Marcelo Cardoso de Souza

  Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairi, Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz, RN, Brazil

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• Marcelo Cardoso de Souza

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Jário Almeida Silva, Mariana Arias Avila, Kamilla Maria Sousa Castro, Yago Tavares Pinheiro, Caio Alano Almeida Lins, Germanna Medeiros Barbosa, Marcelo Cardoso de Souza

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: marcelo.cardoso@ufrn.br

  Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairi, Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz, RN, Brazil

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