Neck pain is a musculoskeletal disorders that often occur and causing the limitations of activity in daily life. Cupping therapyis an complementary therapy and a highly developed alternative nowadays that can be used as a therapy for neck pain.This research aimed to determine the effect of cupping therapy towards the pain scale and quality of life in patients with anon-specific neck pain. This research is a comparative obeservational analytic study with a cohort study approach.The subjects in this research amounted to 13 people who were taken by the consecutive sampling method. Data analysisusing paired t-test or Wilcoxon test. Wilcoxon test showed that was a significant difference in pain scale (p=0,001).In the quality of life domains, through the Wilcoxon test were only conducted a significant difference in physical function scale(p=0,001), vitality (P=0,003), and pain (p=0,001). There was a significant effect in pain scale, but not in all the quality of lifedomains.
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