Supporting your whole body wellness through cupping therapy in Christchurch.
Cupping therapy is used to support soft tissue injury rehabilitation, strongly promote relaxation and stress reduction, improve micro-circulation and encourage blood flow of the musculoskeletal system, and trigger a protective immune response.
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Cupping is a treatment, created by the application of a vacuum or negative pressure to skin, fascia, and muscles. The vacuum is created by warming the air inside the cups with fire. The cups are applied to the body, strongly drawing and pulling the fascia and superficial muscle layers into the cup.
Cupping can create a dark circular mark. These marks may look similar to a bruise but as cupping marks do not occur from contusion trauma to the tissue they are not bruises. In a bruise capillaries are ruptured, causing the blood to bleed out. Comparatively with cupping the blood is drawn out of the microvessels. If cupping marks do occur, they are not usually painful, and are resolved by the body after around 3-5 days.
Sliding or moving cupping is a method that strongly breaks up adhesions and moves blood for old injuries, strong pain, and clearing the area of “stagnations”. It is a vigorous form of treatment for people with strong constitutions and good energy levels. It is used for pain relief, to upregulate immune factors, and reduce chronic inflammation.
A cupping style of placing the cups and leaving for around 5 minutes. This is the most common form of cupping as it is well suited to most people. It is traditionally utalised for stress relief, to assist with cold and flu symptoms, paresthesia, body pain, and injury.
Flash cupping is used to increase blood flow, vitality, and energy in the area. It is performed by rapidly applying and removing the cups repeatitavly for a few minutes before leaving them stationary. Flash cupping is thought to build strength, invigorate the musculature (qi and blood flow), and be supportive of low-energy individuals.
Cupping can be used to support:
At The House Of Acupuncture, we endeavor to provide the highest quality acupuncture care for people engaged in their injury recovery. Our treatment is provided by our fully qualified and registered acupuncturist with ongoing training in musculoskeletal conditions, and over 9 years of experience treating pain and injury.
We’d love to help you, so please let us know if you have any questions or if you are ready, you can book an appointment online.
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