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The star health fad of the 2016 Olympics was definitely cupping, in which a trainer attaches a glass or plastic bell to an athlete's skin by heating the cup or using a suction device. The idea is that the suction from the cup pulls blood to the surface of the skin, breaking capillaries. According to Brian Resnick at Vox, practitioners believe that it helps in recovery and reduces pain. medicine practitioners believe it opens up qi channels.

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  • The star health fad of the 2016 Olympics was definitely cupping, in which a trainer attaches a glass or plastic bell to an athlete's skin by heating the cup or using a suction device. The idea is that the suction from the cup pulls blood to the surface of the skin, breaking capillaries. According to Brian Resnick at Vox, practitioners believe that it helps in recovery and reduces pain. medicine practitioners believe it opens up qi channels.
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  • The star health fad of the 2016 Olympics was definitely cupping, in which a trainer attaches a glass or plastic bell to an athlete's skin by heating the cup or using a suction device. The idea is that the suction from the cup pulls blood to the surface of the skin, breaking capillaries. According to Brian Resnick at Vox, practitioners believe that it helps in recovery and reduces pain. medicine practitioners believe it opens up qi channels. But the scientific studies don't back up the claims. Resnick points out that several meta studies on cupping, including one in 2015, found little evidence that cupping did anything for the human body, except provide a strong placebo effect. “It’s all speculation,” Dr. David Shurtleff, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health tells Jeremy Samuel Faust at Slate, pointing out that nothing in the literature explains why the technique would work.
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