Cupping Therapy: A Step-by-Step Approach

Course overview

As a massage therapist you are constantly looking for new techniques to add to your practice in order for you to keep improving and widening your skill set and to provide more choices for relief, relaxation, and healing to your clients. One technique, cupping therapy, has recently become a topic of discussion. Many massage professionals are finding clients now asking about cupping massage. Whether the client is simply curious about what cupping entails, its benefits, or whether it would be an appropriate treatment for them, you should want to be able to answer your client's questions with confidence and certainly provide the treatment, too! Cupping Therapy: A Step-by-Step Approach examines over 30 different disorders and common sports injuries from a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective and discusses the role of cupping in assisting each condition. Our course offers you a look at the historical use of TCM cupping in folk medicine, a review of TCM theoretical principles and gives you step-by-step guidelines for the twelve methods of TCM cupping therapy utilized in Traditional Chinese Medicine today. Safety precautions, contraindications, and the use of cupping for treating trigger points are also discussed. You will explore the role of cupping in a variety of clinical contexts – ranging from the treatment of children to the effective management of sports injuries and myofascial pain. Our well-established, highly successful course text provides you with a a useful step-by-step approach to the effective application of traditional cupping techniques with special emphasis on issues of safety, expectation and theoretical principles of action. This course will present information on: The history of cupping therapy and cupping's folk heritage Benefits of cupping therapy Preparing the client for cupping treatment Complementary and alternative medicine therapies that can safely incorporate cupping into their treatment protocol Cupping procedures and methods of cupping therapy Expectations during and after cupping therapy Cupping therapy on children and adults Cosmetic cupping therapy Utilizing cupping therapy to assist with common disorders Cupping therapy for sports injuries Myofascial trigger points cupping therapy Cupping therapy evidence-based research Frequently asked questions, precautions and contraindications for cupping therapy To further support your learning, online 'how to' videos and downloadable images are also available to complement the course text.