Cupping for Pain, Health & Performance | Must Be Good, if Phelps Does it, Right? Let's See What the 100+ Studies Say
The "cups" come in various forms and sizes... and no, there's no meta-analysis yet that can tell you what the optimal size and form for the treatment of a given disease / problem would be ;-) "If Phelps does it, it must be good!" I am pretty sure that SuppVersity readers don't think like that this is why I'd like to invite you to join my brief research review on cupping, i.e. the use of cups that are sucked to specific acupuncture points on your back via a simply physics trick: After being heated with fire, the air in the cup expands rapidly only to decrease by the same extent after the pre-heated cup is placed on your back. The rapid reduction of the volume of air in the cup will will create a vacuum that will not just glue the cup to your skin, but literally suck some of your skin into the cup and the capillaries in the skin to rupture - no wonder Phelp's body was plastered with red "cup marks" during the Olympic games ;-) With Phe...
