Cupping therapy for pain (sciatica issues, back pain, neck pain..) Use, Benifits

Many think discovered new therapy, but in reality it is an old therapy !

The "cupping therapy", which is simply good old cupping practiced by Our ancestors has become fashionable to reduce pain and also cellulite ...

On Hollywood at the red carpet during the first show of her movie, Jennifer Aniston sported a covered back traces cupping. This is because the actress is addicted to the method.

Practiced for thousands of years on every continent and particularly in China, this method was, according to Daniel Henry, physiotherapist, osteopath and founder of cupping therapy, "unfairly forgotten in the era of chemical medicine, sulfamides and antibiotics, its needed to be updated to the practice of contemporary medicine. "

The suction cups have been used until the 20th century and disappeared in Western Europe while they were still practiced in Asia and Afirca. To be most effective, Daniel Henry worked on the codification of the implementation of the  cupping therapy to a reflection physiotherapy, osteopathy and the concept of Chinese energetic medicine.

Cupping therapy : how it works?

There are two techniques: hot cupping, 90% of the practice and cold cupping.

For the first, inside the vacuum is done using a flame and then the cup is placed on a specific part of the body related the pathology to treat.

What is the mechanism?

Comparing the movement, meridians, a highway, the plugs thereof are blockages of the body. "We put the cups on the points" plugs "to decongest. A migraine is a congestion, like osteoarthritis, lumbago. "

When the osteopath can not handle, the cup is the first gesture of intent that will relieve the patient and then allow osteopathic manipulation in unparalleled comfort for the patient. "

Cupping therapy : for which pathologies?

If we know cupping therapy mainly in respiratory diseases (grandmothers posed cupping in cases of bronchitis), they have other major indications, thanks to their analgesic action on pain, energy in Chinese medicine, mechanical and by circulatory decongestant phenomenon of an organ.

In all painful pathologies, depending on where the suction cup is raised, the mechanism that is triggered is different.

• In joint disease, rheumatism, sciatica low back, knee osteoarthritis, periarthritis of the shoulder, sprains, tendonitis, cupping have a fabulous indication.
• But also in functional pathologies visceral, digestive, gynecological (Rules pain, menopause).
• Migraines.
• ENT diseases.
• And even in dermatology: psoriasis, acne, eczema, allergies ...

"The cupping therapy is not dangerous to health.

But be careful the blood extraction option is not recommended for people suffering from fever, skin disease and hemophilia"