What do singer Lady Gaga, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, fashion mogul Victoria Beckham and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps have in common apart from being famous? All four are fans of cupping, a form of ...

Cupping is a Chinese medicine therapy used for pain relief and to speed recovery in athletes. I tried it to relieve neck tension and was surprised how enjoyable the sliding technique was. My neck and ...

When an accidental fall into a doorknob required John Althoff to have shoulder surgery, his recovery included physical therapy to increase his range of motion in that arm. But then he needed therapy ...

HoMedics has launched a new style of massager designed to smooth uneven or dimpled skin. The Smoothee IR vacuum massager is based around the traditional Chinese practice of cupping that was all the ...

With the Olympics barely two weeks gone, I’m still thinking about those dark circles you so often see on the backs of swimmers and other elite athletes. Those dark circles are usually the result of ...

If you’ve followed the Olympics, you probably now know about cupping, the treatment behind the purple blotches covering Michael Phelps’ skin that has grabbed headlines. But what’s the science behind ...

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — I sported those purple round welts on my body long before Michael Phelps was born. OK, so Phelps made the world aware of cupping by showing his marked muscular shoulders before ...