Cupping and Gua Sha
What is Cupping?
Cupping is the therapeutic application of decompression (suction) designed to release and mobilize soft tissue restrictions, increase blood flow, facilitate lymphatic movement and more. Compression techniques like deep tissue massage press tissue together. Decompression techniques like cupping pull tissue apart, allowing them to have space for circulation to improve.
What are the benefits?
The benefits of cupping are numerous, but some of the things cupping is most likely to help with include:
- Increased blood flow to aid in healing
- Modulates pain through enkephalin release
- Reduces muscle spasm
- Releases trigger points painlessly
- Mobilizes scar tissue and adhesions
- Increases soft tissue length and extensibility
- Releases nerve entrapments and improve nerve mobility