“Instead of compressing the muscle, you are actually able to do the opposite,” she said. In a recent Rio press conference, American swimmer Dana Vollmer described the process as an opposite massage.
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Modern health practitioners claim the suction expands the skin to promote blood flow in targeted areas. Traditional practitioners use this technique to manipulate chi, or life-force energy, in the body. Olympians typically use “dry cupping,” which relies solely on the suction, rather than “wet cupping” which adds bloodletting to the process by lancing the skin. 04 of a second, anything we think helps will really help us tremendously.”Ĭupping - which uses the heating or pumping of glass or clay cups to create localized suction on the skin - dates back nearly 2,000 years. “All of us have rituals that we believe help us with winning,” Peeke said. “For someone like Phelps who is at the very end of the bell curve, that slight effect that you might get from some therapy, whether it is placebo or otherwise, can be significant and have a significant impact on outcome.” “When you are talking about an athlete, we shouldn’t discount placebo effect,” Caulfield said. While their opinions varied, both agreed on one thing: Even if the only edge a therapy provides is a psychological one, what’s the harm? Her work focuses on integrative and preventive medicine. Peeke is also a Senior Olympic triathlete and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland. Pam Peeke is national spokesperson and fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. “Some people call it debunking,” he says of his work. He has studied how science and health are represented in the public sphere for more than a decade.
Tim Caulfield is research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. The NewsHour reached out to two health researchers for some perspective on the efficacy of cupping and other common recovery and healing therapies used by Olympians. But the IOC points out that not all therapy techniques are scientifically proven. According to the International Olympic Committee, a proper warm-down and certain recovery therapies can help athletes address increased blood pressure, elevated heart rates and stiff muscles that follow extreme physical exertion. swimmer Michael Phelps and gymnast Alex Naddour during the Olympic Games has sent interest in cupping, the traditional eastern medicine technique, soaring in recent days.īut the benefits of this and other therapeutic techniques used on athletes are often unclear. The dark red splotches visible on the bodies of U.S.
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