Extreme cupping therapy - GIF

[Altair]

Extreme cupping therapy.




Previously:

Baby health cage - photo
Bergonic psychiatric chair - photo
Mesotherapy gun - GIF
Electrophysiology rig - photo
Halo-gravity traction scoliosis treatment - GIF

[mr mikey]

I'll pass.

[nova_robotics]

They're like some sort of 1960s low budget Sci-Fi villain. I could see these dumbasses showing up in a Doctor Who episode.

[bob_3000]

I'd like to see what is removed...what ends up in those glass jars?

[Jon]

I'd like to see what is removed

Your money.

Seriously though, I think the vessels are just to hold pressure. The real crime here is wasting all that beautiful copper.

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupping_therapy

[bob_3000]

Your money.

Oh, I though they would be full of negative thoughts/emotions and toxic attitudes....you know, politicians.

[KustomsbyKent]

Pretty common to see this in China, it is another form of medicine for them. I never tried this one, it looked painful, and the people I talked to that had it done said it was painful but provided some benefit...wasn't clear to me!
The first time I saw someone with those marks on them I thought they were a victim!
Typically they heat the glass or copper container, and then apply to the skin, as it cools, it draws a vacuum inside and pulls the skin up into the container, which causes those marks. No thanks!

[Frank S]

Pretty common to see this in China, it is another form of medicine for them. I never tried this one, it looked painful, and the people I talked to that had it done said it was painful but provided some benefit...wasn't clear to me!
The first time I saw someone with those marks on them I thought they were a victim!
Typically they heat the glass or copper container, and then apply to the skin, as it cools, it draws a vacuum inside and pulls the skin up into the container, which causes those marks. No thanks!

Someone would have to show me the science behind this before I would even think about it just like the acupuncture craze a few years ago.

[Jon]

You can probably dig up a few small cohort studies that demonstrate its efficacy, and a few famous people who swear by it.

There is no known mechanism to support it as a general medical therapy, and good luck trying to separate it from a placebo. You would have to create a viable "fake" cupping method. This is actually what they did with acupuncture studies, using a non-penetrating acupuncture needle so that they could at least single-blind the studies.

Localized stimulation - like how you grab and rub a part of your body immediately after injuring it - has some small positive effect. These pseudomedical treatments combine that, plus difficulty of double blinding, plus placebo effect, and voila: "healing".

[Hoosiersmoker]

There are WAAAAAAY better ways to get a hickey!