Cupping Therapy

Cupping is a type of alternative therapy that involves placing cups on the skin to create suction. This suction is thought to improve the flow of energy in the body and facilitate healing. 

When suction is applied to the skin, this makes your blood vessels below the skin enlarge. Fresh blood can then force itself into the area which helps to create new blood vessels – a process known as neovascularization. These newly formed blood vessels can then fill your tissues with new oxygen and nutrients.

As you’re also engaging a process known as sterile inflammation, when using silicone cupping, your body is also releasing platelets, white blood cells, and fibroblasts alongside other healing compounds to help heal certain parts of your body.   What silicone cupping helps with Silicone cupping therapy can be used on the same conditions you would use a deep tissue massage for. Some of the clearer reasons why people use cupping therapy is:

*to increase tissue delivery and oxygenation

*to increase circulation

*trigger helpful inflammation processes

*eliminate stagnant blood

*to stretch connective tissue and fascia

*to create new blood vessels

As a form of non-invasive physical therapy, silicone cupping therapy has also been successful at treating symptoms related to fibromyalgia, arthritis, blood disorders such as hemophilia and anemia, skin conditions such as acne and eczema, infertility problems, facial rejuvenation and wrinkles, migraines, as a detoxification method, to boost the immune system, to treat respiratory illnesses such as asthma or bronchitis, eliminate cellulite, to ease stiff muscles, damage to soft tissues.

Contraindications

Silicone cupping should not be a therapy given to women who are pregnant or menstruating, anyone suffering from muscle spasms or bone fractures, patients with cancer capable of spreading from one part of the body to another, patients who bleed easily, anyone with a high fever, or patients with extreme obesity or thinness.