Cupping

Myofascial decompression, or cupping, techniques are movement-based sets of manual therapy treatment techniques. These techniques evolved from the need to address sports and orthopedic injuries that did not respond to traditional joint mobilization, Graston, Active Release Technique (ART) , or therapeutic exercise. Simply addressing symptom-based articular, neural, or muscular complaints is a temporary fix when the root cause of the problem may be connective tissue matrix dysfunction or fascial plane restriction. Without addressing soft tissue densification and compensatory movement inefficiencies they may cause, outcomes will be less effective.