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Cupping
Chinese cultures have known about the benefits of massage for thousands of years and the important part it plays in a holistic healthy lifestyle. Good health is all about balance and the hectic lives we lead in today's western society leave us tired and stressed at the end of the day. Cupping - winner of Rio Games 4x100-meter relay team to a gold medal Michael Phelps.

While it may look like Phelps and several other Olympians with those skin marks have been in a bar fight, the telltale dots actually are signs of "cupping," an ancient Chinese healing practice that is experiencing an Olympic moment.

"Because this particular recovery modality shows blemishes on his skin, he walks around and looks like a Dalmatian or a really bad tattoo sleeve," said Keenan Robinson, Phelps's personal trainer. "It's just another recovery modality. There's nothing really particularly special about it."

Gua sha
Gua Sha stroking applied to upper back and shoulder. Click on image for detail of Gua Sha.

Gua sha is a healing technique of traditional East Asian medicine. Sometimes called "coining, spooning or scraping", Gua sha is defined as instrument-assisted unidirectional press-stroking of a lubricated area of the body surface to intentionally create transitory therapeutic petechiae called "sha" representing extravasation of blood in the subcutis. more...


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