Cupping Massage Mastery: Cupping for Massage Therapists Using Silicone Cups
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Enhance Massage Treatments with Cupping Therapy
Cupping Massage Mastery is for massage therapists, bodyworkers, and health professionals who want to understand and learn how cupping therapy will help their clients and boost their practices.
Discover how to integrate the versatile healing modality of cupping to better enhance the effectiveness of massages.
This cupping instructions book will explain the following topics.
*Combine deep tissue massage and cupping.
*Work with less discomfort to clients.
*Perform with less strain to hands.
*Accept a greater range of clients.
*Work with a wide variety of conditions.
*Explain cupping marks.
*Apply safety precautions.
*Easy step-by-step instructions with photos.
Cupping Massage Mastery (Video Course)
Take your cupping skills to the next level with the Cupping Massage Mastery video training.
Go to CuppingMassageMastery.com to learn more.
Morgan Sutherland
Since becoming a professional massage therapist in 2000, I’ve has consistently helped thousands of clients manage their back pain with a combination of deep tissue work, cupping, and stretching. In 2002, I began a career-long tradition of continuing study by being trained in Tuina—the art of Chinese massage—at the world famous Olympic Training Center in Beijing, China. As an orthopedic massage therapist, I specialize in treating chronic pain and sports injuries and helping restore proper range of motion. In 2006, I became certified as a medical massage practitioner, giving me the knowledge and ability to work with physicians in a complementary healthcare partnership. Becoming a certified cupping therapist in 2011, Morgan utilizes the powerful vacuum suction of silicone cups to instantly release rigid soft tissue; drain excess fluids and toxins; loosen adhesions and lift connective tissue; and bring blood flow to stagnant skin and muscles. The silicone cups literally become an extension of my hands, allowing me to decompress and create negative pressure, which seamlessly lifts and releases muscle adhesions versus performing the classic compression of massage. It’s said that 5 minutes of cupping is equivalent to 30 minutes of a deep tissue massage. In 2014, Morgan compiled his helpful blog posts about back pain exercises and published his first book, DIY Low Back Pain Relief. Several of the chapters can be found freely available as guest posts on the well-known health blog, Mind Body Green. The 2017, Morgan sustained a lower back injury that he was able to overcome thanks to a series of highly targeted exercises. He then went on to publish his next book, Low Back Pain Survival Guide. Quickly following the release of this back pain book came a series of ebooks that he is excited to share on Smashwords. When Morgan is not helping massage clients manage their back pain, I’m teaching online workshops on how to incorporate massage cupping into a bodywork practice.
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Cupping Massage Mastery - Morgan Sutherland
Welcome to Cupping Massage Mastery, where you will learn how to integrate the modern adaptation of cupping therapy using silicone cups into a massage session.
Performing advanced bodywork techniques, such as myofascial release and trigger point therapy, has never been simpler, thanks to cupping massage.
My name is Morgan Sutherland, and I've been a certified massage therapist since the year 2000. For the past 13 years, I've been successfully combining deep tissue massage and cupping to treat chronic pain and sports injuries.
My clients rave about how much cupping has enhanced the effectiveness of my massages, so much so that they're rebooking appointments and writing five-star reviews.
Currently I have over 450 reviews, so you can feel confident you'll be learning from a seasoned cupping massage therapist.
I designed this cupping course for massage therapists, bodyworkers, and other health professionals seeking to learn a versatile healing modality. This knowledge will allow them to expand their current practices and work much deeper without causing their clients pain or straining their own bodies.
By the end of this book, you will be able to integrate silicone cupping therapy into a massage session, work with a greater range of clients and wider variety of conditions, explain cupping marks to clients, and apply safety precautions by knowing about contraindications.
I'll be teaching over a dozen cupping massage techniques (such as paraspinal release and reverse pin and stretch) that have allowed me to go deeper and get even faster results with less pain than just deep tissue massage alone.
Follow along as you'll learn step-by-step cupping treatments for a variety of chronic pain conditions, such as rotator cuff strain, tennis elbow, low back pain, sciatica, in addition to a number of sports injury protocols for the lower extremities that keep my athletic clients performing better and injury free.
The ideal student for this course is a massage therapist, bodyworker, or other health professional who wants to learn a versatile healing modality, which will allow them to do deeper work; get excellent results without causing discomfort to their clients; and save their hands from strain, injury, and fatigue while still having fun and growing their practices.
Cupping Massage Mastery (Video Course)
Take your cupping skills to the next level with the Cupping Massage Mastery video training.
Go to CuppingMassageMastery.com to learn more.
I look forward to seeing you inside the course.
In good health,
Morgan Sutherland, L.M.T.
Instructor, Cupping Massage Mastery
CuppingMassageMastery.com
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Cupping
Cupping therapy, commonly referred to as cupping, has been around for thousands of years. It developed over time from the original use of hollowed-out animal horns (the horn method) to treat boils and suck the toxins out of snakebites and skin lesions.
Horns slowly evolved into bamboo cups, which were eventually replaced by glass.
Therapeutic applications evolved with the refinement of the cup itself and with the cultures that employed cupping as a healthcare technique.
The true origin of cupping still remains uncertain to this day. Some consider the Chinese to be responsible for cupping, however, the earliest pictorial records date back to the ancient Egyptians about 1500 BC.
Translations of hieroglyphics in the Ebers Papyrus, the oldest medical textbook, detail the use of cupping for treating fever, pain, vertigo, menstrual imbalances, weakened appetite, and helping to accelerate the healing crisis.
From the Egyptians, cupping was introduced to the ancient Greeks, where Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine and cupping advocate, viewed cupping as a remedy for almost every type of disease.
In fact, other Greek physicians used the strong suction of cupping to restore spinal alignment by reducing dislocated vertebrae from protruding inward.
The earliest recorded use of cupping came from the famous alchemist and herbalist Ge Hong (281–341 BCE), who popularized the saying, Acupuncture and cupping, more than half of the ills cured.
The Chinese expanded the utilization of cupping to include its use in surgery to divert blood flow from the surgery site.
In the 1950s, after much extensive research, a collaborative effort