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What is cupping and what does it have to do with Remedial Massage?

19/10/2016

 
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What is it? 
Cupping is an ancient technique used by Sports, Remedial Massage & Myotherapists to improve flexibility, loosen fascia, and help with pain. This treatment technique dates back to ancient Egypt, Chinese and Middle Eastern cultures. It has been described by Egyptians as early as 1550 B.C in the Ebers Papyrus. 

Cupping is often used in conjunction with other remedial massage techniques such as trigger point therapy or deep tissue massage to improve the effect of a massage treatment.

​What Happens? 
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Massage Therapists place several cups on your body and take out oxygen from the cups by using a flame or a rubber pump creating a vacuum. 

​As the air is sucked out your skin will rise up into the cup. Your skin will redden as blood is drawn closer to the skin. Some therapists will tell you that this redness is toxins and chemicals being sucked out of your body. This however, is not proven and it is more than likely just blood being drawn close to the skin by the suctioning effect.
The cups can be left on the same spot for a short period of time or slowly glided across the body. The two different styles of cupping have different affects on the body. 

After the treatment you are usually left with large cup-size welts. These can be tender to touch and vary in colour from black (if left on too long) or pink. Eventually you will be left with a a circular marking that looks like a bruise for up to a week after treatment.

Cupping can be painful - particularly if the cups are moved around to work on the fascia of the body. The pain should be at a tolerable.  If it is too painful let your massage therapist know and they can decease the vacuum on the cup. 

What are the Benefits? 
  • Cupping can work with patients in acute pain to improve range of motion. Often people can't tolerate normal remedial massage techniques such as trigger point therapy in the first 72 hours of an injury. Sometimes using cupping as a part of a remedial massage to decrease muscle tightness can give immediate pain relief. An example of this would be when you sleep funny and can't move your neck. 
  • Chronic tightness - Some times the fascia around a muscle can be extremely tight. No matter what is done nothing seems to make a 'dent' on the level of muscular tightness. In this case cupping can be used to affect the fascia around the muscles. As the cups suction up the skin in the vacuum the fascia is sucked up with it. By moving around the cups it can stretch out the fascia around muscles which may be causing the muscles to remain tight. 

Cupping & Science?
Unfortunately there is minimal research into the science behind cupping or it's affects on the body.  It is one of those techniques that is worth giving a try to see what it does to your body. Then you can make up your on mind on the whether or not it works. 

If you would like cupping to be incorporated into your massage treatment please let your therapist know. 

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References: 
  • Chirali I,  (2014) Traditional Chinese Medicine Cupping Therapy 3rd Ed, Elsivier Health Sciences, United Kingdom.  
  • Myers T, (2014) Anatomy Trains 3rd Ed,  Elsivier Health Sciences, United Kingdom.  
  • http://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/cupping-therapy
  • http://www.chinesecupping.com/history_of_chinese_cupping.html
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