Cupping therapy has been used by many cultures for thousands of years to treat tight muscles and joint ahes from over work, stress, injury, and the flu, this simple technique to still proves be an extremely effective tool to even the highest level athletes in proffessional sport.

 

Cupping has seen a re-discovery with many proffessional and Olympic athletes athletes sporting the bruises of cups and many chiropractors, physical therapists, massage therapists, and acupuncturists, uses cupping in hteir treatment to release muscle tension, increase blood flow, and detoxify tissue.

 

The suction created in side the cup stretching apart tight fascia, tendons and muscles, the negative vacume created also draws blood and lymph through the tissues, flushing out trapped expired red blood cells and metabolic wastes like lactic acid, damaged tissue fibers and red blood cells trapped in tight tissues.

 

Larger toxins are filtered by the skin which, leaving a brown mark or “bruise,” which fades within 1 to 7 days as toxins are broken down, the darkness of the color is from damaged or expeired red blood cells that were trapped within the tight muscle and fascia.

 

The "bruise" is not sore to touch and not all indivduals will bruise with many individulas only showing color in the first and scound cupping session, though most feel immediate improvement of pain and tension in the area with or witout the colour.