Earn 6 CEUs with Cupping Massage Therapy: Therapeutic & Sports Training & Certificate, this technique is a modality that uses a cup that is applied to the body surface by reducing the pressure inside the cup creating a suction or negative pressure. The technique increases the local circulation of blood and lymph, stretches muscle tissue, and loosens adhesion or scar tissue for the treatment of acupressure points, myofascial restrictions, and trigger points. 

Cupping Massage Therapy: Therapeutic & Sports focuses on techniques that utilize the cups with various strokes over the skin surface creating a slight pulling action; effective for draining and warming the tissue and parking techniques that create a decompression that aid in trigger point release and loosening adhesions. Cupping Massage Therapy can be used in a full treatment or as a spot treatment. Cupping allows therapists to effectively relieve pain and stress and rejuvenate the body without straining their hands and wrists. This course teaches gliding and parking cupping methods for massage and detox treatments with a focus on the benefits to athletes. Step-by-step videos illustrating proper hand positions and techniques with a full-body protocol video.