Self-paced Online Home Study Advanced Myofascial Cupping

Course overview

This class combines Myofascial Release with Orthopedic Cupping. Your first 6 CE hours of training will review the world of fascia, and how to manipulate it through strokes with your fingers, hands and forearms. Your remaining 12 CE hours of training will provide a full body cupping myofascial decompression routine. Training includes basic information such as cupping contraindications plus hands-on practice of advanced cupping maneuvers to incorporate in an isolated treatment area or as a full body protocol. Orthopedic cupping massage is used to release superficial facia, myofascia and other soft tissues. It is one of bodyworks latest and greatest techniques where east meets west and turned into best! Included in this class are over 25 cupping skills application and soft tissue manipulation instructor demonstrations plus myofascial j-stroking, palming, alphabet stroking, clock technique testing and more. Cupping has highly evolved since the 2016 Rio Olympics. Traditional meridian cupping was set aside, and orthopedic cupping massage emerged as a new distinct form of massage and bodywork. Orthopedic cupping massage stretches and releases soft tissue restrictions which can create a human domino effect of better tissue metabolism that can lead to better athletic performance and other health related benefits. While stationary cups applied along meridians are still practiced today with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), orthopedic cupping massage provides a new bodywork approach. This class shows how to apply cupping skills and techniques over traditional orthopedic injuries such as tennis elbow, frozen shoulder, surgical knee repairs, etc., and how to practice a full body cupping massage with oil. We will spend time learning about myofascial restrictions, soft tissue adhesions, muscle tension, and how we might relieve these orthopedic medical conditions with cupping applications and techniques. The concept of our Orthopedic Cupping class is to apply this ancient eastern medicine to western musculoskeletal issues and bodywork. Cupping training also includes cupping history theory contraindications endangerment sites equipment types equipment care general cupping rules cupping methods over a dozen different types of cupping techniques for various athletic, orthopedic and spot treatments a full body myofascial decompression treatment a brief vacuum therapies lecture multiple instructor demonstrations and with student hands-on follow-along practice time For those who wish to safely do so, we will practice a various amount of orthopedic cupping maneuvers on our own shoulders, arms, chest, quadriceps and lower legs, throughout various hours of the class to become more familiar of the different ways that cups can maneuver and stretch the underlying tissues. We will also show you several different types of cups that can be used with orthopedic bodywork that are available on the market today that you can purchase for about $25 or less at marketplaces such as amazon. This class will teach you the pros and cons of the different cupping materials and mediums available for orthopedic bodywork and general cupping purposes. This class does not use any electrical machines to perform cupping. This is a modern up-to-date class with real hands-on cupping applications that uses individual cups to promote circulation, pain relief, increased range of motion, athletic performance, etc.