{"id":473,"date":"2016-09-22T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/?page_id=473"},"modified":"2016-09-22T16:08:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:08:42","slug":"cupping-massage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/?page_id=473","title":{"rendered":"Cupping Massage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cupping.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cupping-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"Cupping\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cupping-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cupping.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Cupping is an ancient form of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/balance\/what-is-alternative-medicine\"><u><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">alternative medicine<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">in which a therapist puts special cups on your\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/skin-problems-and-treatments\/picture-of-the-skin\"><u><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">skin<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0for a few minutes to create suction. People get it for many purposes, including to help with pain, inflammation, blood flow, relaxation and well-being, and as a type of deep-tissue massage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">At Physios4Movement we use Cupping Massage to assist with skin and fascia (sheeth that cover muscles) release assisting with restoring normal movement. Our cups are made of silicone to minimise pain and bruising normally associated with cupping.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Cupping therapy might be trendy now, but it\u2019s not new. It dates back to ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern cultures. One of the oldest medical textbooks in the world, the\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Ebers Papyrus<\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, describes how the ancient Egyptians used cupping therapy in 1,550 B.C.<\/span><a name=\"1\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cupping is an ancient form of\u00a0alternative medicine\u00a0in which a therapist puts special cups on your\u00a0skin\u00a0for a few minutes to create suction. People get it for many purposes, including to help with pain, inflammation, blood flow, relaxation and well-being, and as a type of deep-tissue massage. At Physios4Movement we use Cupping Massage to assist with skin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-473","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physios.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}