Cupping
Cupping is a therapy used to create a suction on the skin so the fascia, the connective tissue, located just below the skin that wraps the muscle can be separated to break up adhesions and improve muscle movement between the two structures.The benefits are numerous: relaxing effect, analgesic effect, anti-inflammatory, soothing, hyperaemia (increase of blood flow), as well as activating the metabolism, eliminating accumulated toxins, increase immune system and break adhesions.
There are two types of techniques:
Cupping massage: this technique uses lots of massage oil on the skin and once the suction is created, the cups are glided to produce a massage effect
Fixed cupping: cups are placed on trigger points in order to treat muscular contracture