Cupping Therapy

Serving the Greater San Bernardino County Area including Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Fontana, Upland, CA

Cupping therapy is actually divided into two main types: Traditional Method and Myofascial Decompression. At Recovery Lab of Rancho Cucamonga, our Recovery Specialists know how to do both options.

The traditional cupping is what we find most people think of when they hear about cupping. This is a targeted therapy where the cups are firmly suctioned to your skin and then are left there for about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, Myofascial Decompression uses the same cups, but this time, they are continuously moved around on your skin.

Cupping

  • Why To Try Cupping

The most straightforward reason to try cupping is to decrease your recovery time after you have a strenuous training session.

How cupping accomplishes this is simple: it increases your blood flow to the area where the cups are applied, and this hastens the removal of all those toxins which have built up there while you exercised. A faster removal of these toxins equals a faster recovery!

This has the added benefits of:

  • Lower Inflammation
  • Less Tension
  • Decreased Pain
  • Will Cupping Hurt?

Cupping should never hurt! Nevertheless, there can be an ache at first.

Think of it like massaging a tight muscle. There is often an uncomfortable feeling for a minute or two until the muscle starts loosening up for you. Afterward, it feels so much better than it did before. This is what cupping is like as well!

  • What To Expect After Cupping

First, the best news about cupping: it is a therapy where you should experience noticeable benefits immediately after your very first session!

Second, you may be extra thirsty after cupping, and you should deliberately drink plenty of water. Remember: the cupping is helping your body get those toxins out of your muscles, so the added water is needed to help you flush them all the way out of your system!

Third, with traditional cupping, you’ll have light red circles on you where your cupping was done for a few days to a couple of weeks. Though this is nothing to be worried about, we know it can be inconvenient.

  • When Should You Have Cupping Therapy?

The best time to schedule a cupping session at Recovery Lab is within 24 hours of an intense workout. Preferably, this will also come at a time when you don’t plan on using those same muscles in another workout for the following 24 hours.

Generally, since the cupping marks can take up to a couple of weeks to fade, we recommend cupping sessions once per month. However, our Recovery Specialist may recommend more frequent sessions if you do strenuous workout frequently.

  • Why Is Cupping So Popular?

Cupping therapy first started trending after the 2016 Olympics when Olympic athlete Michael Phelps was seen preforming with the dark circles on him clearly indicating a recent cupping session.

Despite what you may think, cupping has actually been around for literally thousands of years, starting in China and the East Asian area and gradually spreading across the globe from there as Michael Phelps and other professional athletes started drawing attention to it.