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tissues in the area where the cups 1. Your practitioner will determine your session, which should resolve
No Bones About It are placed. This may help with if this treatment would be effective within seven days.

Physio Talk! decreasing muscle tension and for you based on a physical What Conditions Is It Effective
promoting cell repair/healing. assessment. For?
Although cupping appears to be 2. The practitioner will place a Cupping therapy may help with
quite “on-trend” at present, it’s onset cup(s) on your skin. Depending on the following conditions, among
Kristen MacDonell, actually dates back to Ancient Egypt. the type of cupping, they may also others:
MScPT, HBKin Types of Cupping: use gel/lotion, and/or heat. • Lower back pain
There are 4 main categories of 3. You will experience a sucking
• Neck and shoulder pain
cupping performed today: sensation and pressure as the cups
Kristen MacDonell is a local • Dry cupping: suction-only are suctioned - either done manually • Headaches/migraines
registered Physiotherapist and Owner
method. or mechanically. For running • Knee/leg pain
of MacDonell Family Physiotherapy.
• Running Cupping: moving cupping, you may feel a pinching or
The Cup Runneth Over! • Carpal Tunnel
suction cups around the body. tightening sensation.
Talking: Cupping Therapy • Flash Cupping: quick, 4. Depending on the type of • Tennis Elbow/Golfers Elbow
Cupping is a type of alternative repeated suction and release of cups cupping, they may glide the cups • Scar management
therapy that involves placing cups on an area of the body. across the treatment area. Treatments As everyone’s situation is
on the skin to create suction. The • Wet/Bleeding Cupping: may could last from 2-10 mins. unique, always consult a registered
suction is thought to improve the involve both suction and controlled Alternatively, they may leave cups health professional to help create a
flow of energy in the body and medical bleeding (*only performed in place and have you rest before management plan that’s effective
facilitate healing. by certain qualified practitioners*). they return to remove the cups. and safe for you!
Cupping also increases blood What to Expect During a 5. Your skin may turn red and show
circulation and stretches underlying Treatment? light bruising or circular marks after Happy Cupping!

“Livin’ The Dream”

find a fly swatter, so I utilized my pile of knowledge and experience in confidence than ability, you are
shoe.” his head. He can walk into a room with surely overpaying them. The one with
Another common error made in a problem and say, “This is what needs knowledge and experience will walk
the hopes of sounding more erudite to be done,” or, “These colours will be in and solve the problem in a trice.
is the use of “simplistic” instead of perfect.” He’ll even throw in the reason The dunderhead will hem and haw
“simple.” Simple is good. Simplistic why my original solution to the problem and poke around for hours, while you
is an oversimplification of a complex was wrong. This in spite of the fact that I anxiously tally up those hours in your
concept. had spent hours on Pinterest and Houzz head. Someday he or she will have
By Janeen Wagemans A good example of a simplistic and was pretty sure my conclusions and the knowledge and expertise to be
way of getting things done is paying choices were safe. When he arrived, worth his weight in gold. Just not yet.
ometimes people throw in an add- people by the hour. Anyone who has his suggestion was not safe. It was There are many fields in which
Sed syllable to make what they are ever worked alongside two or more something I would never, ever have the true expert will work swiftly
saying or writing seem more upscale people doing anything at all knows even considered in my wildest dreams. and efficiently. They will assess
and fancier. that paying by the hour is seldom Although when, in those ten minutes, your problem, be it mealy worms
People will say disinterested instead fair. Some people work quickly and he explained his rationale, and I might or squeaky floorboards, and tell you
of uninterested, without realizing that efficiently. Others work slowly and not have understood his explanation the cheapest, simplest way to solve
they are using an entirely different inefficiently. Some people have a lot entirely, I did know that he knows. And your problem. You may be paying
word. Disinterested, of course, means of experience behind them and have I’m delighted with the result! Those ten by the hour, but when you see that
impartial, whereas uninterested learned to avoid mistakes. Others are minutes were gold to me! a person is quick, and efficient, and/
simply means not interested. new at this and are far lower on the Much the same is true of technology or knowledgeable and brilliant,
Or they might say “utilize” instead learning curve. help. If you pay an experienced tech realize that you are paying for all that
of use. But utilize is a nifty word that I recently offered an interior expert by the hour to solve a thorny knowledge and experience, and tip
has its own meaning, which is to use designer friend a substantial bit of issue with your computer, you are generously.
something in a way for which it was cash for ten minutes of his time. I definitely underpaying them. If you It is indeed simplistic to think that
not originally intended. “I couldn’t know him. He’s brilliant, with a vast pay a tech “expert” who has more you are only paying for their time.