Evaluation of the Forced Inspiratory Suction and Swallow Tool to Stop Hiccups

One article on PainSci cites Alvarez 2021: Cramps, Spasms, Tremors & Twitches

PainSci notes on Alvarez 2021:

This is a small and low quality positive “trial” of Hiccaway device for hiccup treatment based on questionnaire data from 250 people, with 90% of respondents declaring the Hiccaway to be superior to other home remedies. This is not “extraordinary” evidence, obviously, but the claim isn’t extraordinary enough to need it. It’s based on quite a straightforward neurological mechanism, and so although the result is quite strong, it’s not “too good” to be true. The FISST probably works.

And, for whatever it’s worth, I have found it to be highly effective in treating my own hiccups, based on several tests over several months.

This page is part of the PainScience BIBLIOGRAPHY, which contains plain language summaries of thousands of scientific papers & others sources. It’s like a highly specialized blog. A few highlights:

• Inciting events associated with lumbar disc herniation. Suri 2010 Spine J.
• Prediction of an extruded fragment in lumbar disc patients from clinical presentations. Pople 1994 Spine (Phila Pa 1976).
• Characteristics of patients with low back and leg pain seeking treatment in primary care: baseline results from the ATLAS cohort study. Konstantinou 2015 BMC Musculoskelet Disord.
• Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness training compared with normal school provision in reducing risk of mental health problems and promoting well-being in adolescence: the MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial. Kuyken 2022 Evid Based Ment Health.
• Is there a relationship between throbbing pain and arterial pulsations? Mirza 2012 J Neurosci.