Super Bowl LII & Cupping Therapy

What does Super Bowl have to do with cupping you ask? A couple of things actually. For starters, did you know that Patriots Linebacker James Harrison spends over $350,000 a year employing specialists who help manage the punishment his body endures? One of his specialists is a massage therapist that uses cupping to reduce muscle soreness. Harrison states, "Before I get treated, I HURT, and after, I feel better." Today he will step onto the field as the oldest defensive player in professional football. He's obviously doing something right.

Secondly, while most of you were getting ready for Super Bowl LII today, I spent the day taking a level 2 cupping class learning specific treatment techniques for common shoulder conditions such as:

• frozen shoulder
• impaired range of motion
• pain inside the shoulder joint
• tennis elbow
• shoulder pain accompanied by pins, needles, tingling, burning or numbness radiating down the arm and/or up into the neck

This is just the tip of the iceberg for me. In time I will become a resource in the community for cupping therapy. I'm thoroughly sold on the therapy for moving out stagnation from the body so new biochemistry has a chance to nourish affected areas. And even though the temporary marks cupping can leave on the skin look brutal, it doesn't feel brutal at all. In fact I nearly fell asleep while my partner was working on me.

Are you interested in trying out cupping for yourself? Awesome! You can add cupping therapy for $10 to any of your massages at Daybreak Spa Studio. Or I have a detox massage that already incorporates cupping into the treatment if you really want to flush your system. Let me know if you have any questions.

Watch more about cupping here in an interview with Amber my instructor: