Cupping therapy involves placement of special cups on the skin and creating suction to decompress the layers of fascia, which increases circulation. This therapeutic approach offers a number of therapeutic benefits.
Benefits of cupping:
- Relieve pain
- Decrease swelling
- Decreases muscle tightness, tension, spasms
- Help facilitate healing
- Increase range of motion and flexibility
- Assist in strength and reeducation of neuromusculoskeletal structures
- Improve circulatory, lymphatic and integumentary systems
- Promotes relaxation and well being
- Helps release toxins, create energy flow
Cupping successfully helps treat:
- Sprains and strains
- Tendonitis
- Tennis elbow, golfer's elbow
- Rotator cuff injuries
- Shin splints and stress fractures
- Plantar Fasciitis
- TMJ dysfunction
- Piriformis syndrome
- Back pain
- Neck pain
- Lymphedema
- Poor posture