“Instead of applying sucking-nothing cups, Sports doctors would do better once and for all to include vaccinations among the useful practices in view of important sporting events“. Thus the epidemiologist Pier Luigi Lopalco, professor of Hygiene at the University of Salento, returns to cupping therapy, which has once again ended up in the spotlight of the Olympics for the swimmers who showed off the marks on their backs at the Paris Games. “Magical arts”, writes the expert in a post on Facebook.
“The marks on the Finnish swimmer’s back”, he comments in reference to the photo of one of the many champions immortalised in the pool with ‘polka dots’ on their backs, “are the clear sign that Magical thinking does not even spare the sports doctors of national teams. Those marks are the result of ‘cupping’, a practice mediated by oriental medicine. A vacuum is created on the skin of the unwary athlete and those ugly marks are nothing more than hematomas. Needless to say, There is not a shred of experimental evidence that this practice serves any purpose.. But that’s how it is. Magic takes hold.”
“I read instead – adds Lopalco – of at least 40 athletes positive for Covid-19” or other respiratory diseases, as the World Health Organization specified yesterday. “It is likely, as I hope, that these are positive cases linked to asymptomatic or very mild forms. But even a cold can become really annoying for an athlete who is playing for the title on a handful of tenths of a second”, warns the doctor, suggesting, “instead of magic arts, perhaps a vaccine”.
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