Healing Hands

Potential Benefits of Cupping Therapy

- Pain relief: Cupping may help relieve muscle tension and pain, particularly in the back, neck, and shoulders.
- Improved blood flow: The suction created by cupping can increase blood flow to the area, which may promote healing and reduce inflammation.
- Relaxation: Cupping can be a relaxing experience, which can help reduce stress and anxiety.

What is a Trigger Point?
Trigger points are involuntary tight tender spots in a contracted muscle. This creates pain and dysfunction within the muscle. They are in parts of the muscle where there is decreased circulation, increased muscle contraction, spasm and increased nerve sensitivity causing a sharp pain or a constant ache. They also can cause referred pain, or pain felt in other parts of the body.

What causes Trigger Points?
Trigger points develop from either stress, repetitive or overuse of a muscle, trauma or accident, structural imbalance, improper stretching or no stretching before physical activity. When a muscle is overused or injured a contraction develops and knots occur. These knots develop when individual muscle fibers are over-stimulated and unable to release their contracted state. This contraction reduces blood flow resulting in a diminished supply of oxygen and a build up of metabolic waste. The contracted muscle (trigger point) reacts by sending out signals of pain.

Massage benefits can include:
•Reducing stress and increasing relaxation.
•Reducing pain and muscle soreness and tension.
•Improving circulation, energy and alertness.
•Lowering heart rate and blood pressure.
•Improving immune function.

Self-care is very important and a massage is a healing session dedicated to you, to relieve your stress and muscular tension, and it feels really good.