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How Can Cupping Help You Reduce Pains?
Although cupping is recently gaining popularity, it's a form of ancient therapy that has been used for centuries now in China and Middle Eastern countries. During the cupping routine, your therapist will place special cups on your skin to create suction. The cups can be made of silicone, glass, bamboo, or earthenware and the suction helps with relaxation, pain, circulation, and inflammation.
Understanding How Cupping Helps Reduce Pain
As your therapist uses the cups on your body to create suction, the suction helps draw fluids and increases circulation to the target area. The additional blood and oxygen flow to the targeted region helps relieve muscle tension, inflammation, and pain.
Oxygen-filled blood that flows through to the damaged muscles begins the healing process. Additionally, the heat in the blood flowing to the region expands blood vessels, easing stiffness, restoring movement, and thus, reducing pain.
Different Types of Pain Cupping Can Help With
Cupping therapy offers an effective way to relieve pain. Some pains cupping can help with include the following.
1. Back Pain
When suffering from back pain that other home remedies have failed to cure, you understand how debilitating it can be. Before seeking invasive treatments like surgery, try cupping.
Your therapist can perform cupping therapy on your back to increase blood circulation and loosen the connective tissue that may be inflamed and causing you pain. Thus, offering an effective non-invasive solution for your back pain.
2. Pain Caused by Varicose Veins
When the valves inside veins fail to work correctly, they don’t push blood from muscles. So, the blood congests on the veins, causing a twist and bulge - varicose veins. On the surface, varicose veins appear like bulging bluish veins visible under your skin. They are most common on the feet and are a common cause of leg pain.
People suffering from varicose veins describe feeling a deep ache in their legs. The intensity of the pain varies depending on the veins, with some people recording severe symptoms. Cupping improves varicose veins by increasing blood circulation. It brings in fresh blood flow, which is rich in oxygen. So after cupping, you will notice the veins appearing lighter. However, you might need to schedule follow-up sessions for long-lasting results.
3. Stomach Pain Due to Indigestion
Do you always feel an uncomfortable fullness when you begin eating accompanied by abdominal pain? It could be indigestion. Cupping can help relieve pain caused by indigestion.
As your therapist uses cups on your stomach, it will engage the parasympathetic system and cause an increased blood flow to your digestive tract. When your therapist creates suction on your abdomen region, it will also stimulate the digestive system and aid in peristalsis - the contractions in your stomach that help push food through the digestive system. It will also help clear colon blockages and encourage blood supply through your organs, offering relief.
4. Neck Pain
Most people experience neck pain due to muscle tension, strains, broken cartilages, and worn-out joints. Although neck pain centers on one point in your neck, sometimes it can be dispersed, and the pain can feel like stiffness or pain.
Irrespective of the cause of your neck pain, cupping can help. The suction created during cupping therapy creates negative pressure on the target area. This negative pressure lifts and gently separates tissue layers, increasing lymph drainage and blood flow in the area. Thus, the cupping routine helps relieve tension from muscles around your neck, alleviating neck pain.
Do You Need Cupping Therapy?
Are you dealing with any of the above pains? Cupping therapy offers a fast and non-invasive pain relief option. Besides, it encourages natural body healing, reducing dependency on painkillers. Get in touch with us today for effective cupping therapy techniques to get rid of your pain.
