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I did your sciatica treatment on a 91-year-old whom the medical clinic referred to me to help with sciatica pain that was debilitating for him. After only 1 session he came back and shared that he and his wife went square dancing and had not felt the pain since the cupping treatment — 1 TREATMENT. He wondered if I could remove the pain in his feet too. He's been singing my praises for this wonderful therapy with all their friends and I have 7 new clients in just the last 2 weeks.

Another gal I cupped for bursitis shared that this was the first time she's felt relief in over a year.

I have a client with chronic fatigue and lots of HT's and stress. This morning she was exhausted and her feet were swollen. I cupped her hands and feet with the negative magnets. Right after she came out of the massage she said that her shoes were looser and she could tell that her feet weren't so swollen anymore. Later that afternoon I passed her at the market all rosy in the cheeks, looking very happy — she said she felt wonderful.

Another client — a 16-year-old girl with chronic neck/shoulder pain. She mainly holds everything stressful in her muscles, and rarely loosens up much; she also has bursitis in one of her shoulders. I have tried so many techniques with her, but cupping was exactly what she needed. Instead of another session of pushing and pressing on her, the gentle stretching softened her up quickly. She looked absolutely lethargic when she got off the table. I spoke with her mom the next morning to check on her, and her mom said she was really relaxed and slept well the entire night — which hadn't happened in years.

One of my regular clients suffers from chronic knee pain and a weird bump of tightness in her hip that happened when her first kid was born over 30 years ago. They sent her to physical therapy for it at the time but it didn't help. I used cups all around her knee — she had a measure of relief right away and the next day felt even more relief. I did cupping on her hip with the Baguanfa cups — on and around the bump that had been there for 3 decades — and it disappeared! She is ecstatic.

I have a long-time client who had surgery on both wrists — one for carpal tunnel and one from a broken bone. She has not been able to fully open or close her hands in years. I placed the small Baguanfa cup on the palm of each hand and left them on for about 15 minutes. When I took them off she could open and close her hands with ease and without pain. It has continued to stay that way.

After taking the class I was so excited to get back to work and use it. The very first client I used it on was also amazed with the results we had. She had been in an auto accident 6 months prior and was getting massage and chiropractic care to relieve the pain in her shoulders and neck. We were getting results with compression massage — but they were minimal and short-lived. After her first cupping session she felt great. A week later I saw her again and her pain had not returned. I continue to have results like this.

I have been a LMP for 7.5 years, and have been Massage Cupping for about 19 months. Every time I use this modality I am amazed. My specialty is deep-tissue work, which can get quite uncomfortable at times. With cupping it is not painful. It is my hope that as a licensed massage therapist I will be able to continue using cupping for a long time.

When I added cupping in August of 2006, I had become so familiar with how the majority of my clients' bodies responded to the "regular" techniques that I had become accustomed to using on each, that when I incorporated cups, I was able to very clearly differentiate the results of the cupping treatments almost immediately. When my clients got off the table and returned, the feedback I received matched my observations and palpation-driven conclusions.

I just wanted to drop you a couple of lines and check in with some feedback on how cupping massage is going with the elderly clients at the assisted-living home. One of the challenges I had was educating them that this treatment was beneficial to their overall circulation. I am having great results, more people are signing up, and I just wanted to say thank you for providing me with the skills necessary to make a difference.

My 3-year-old niece has never been "normal" in her bowel movements — lots of severe constipation, pain, enemas. It has been very difficult, and now their doctor is suggesting a colostomy bag for her. I did the procedure on her — she was a little scared, lying there holding her tiny hands up in the air, but I reassured her that I would never hurt her, and told her everything that I was doing. When we got to the top of the large intestine (location was at around 1:00), the cup became "stuck." So I jiggled it around to loosen it up. She said it hurt, but no sooner than she said that, it released. In less than 20 minutes — you wouldn't have believed her diaper was HEAVY, and my sister-in-law said that she had never seen her poop like that. Later that evening again she filled her diaper. I am thinking that she had a twisted intestine, and even though we can't see the intestines, I think it got straightened out by the lifting and moving. Our family is relieved and shocked that such a simple treatment could end years of pain and frustration and give back to my niece a normal life.