Yes, those are the circles from the Olympic swimmers. No, it doesn’t hurt the way it looks.
Cupping therapy in West Los Angeles, placed by your pattern, not a generic template. Cupping uses gentle suction to lift the skin and the tissue underneath, a bit like a deep massage running in reverse. Instead of pressing into the muscle, it decompresses it: layers that have been stuck together get room to slide again, blood flow floods the area, and tissue that’s been clamped down for months finally gets a breath.
People reach for it when they’re chronically tight, when regular pressure hasn’t cracked a stubborn area, or when they want recovery without another hour of deep work. The marks fade in days; the sliding-surface freedom lasts a lot longer. We place cups where your scan says tissue is gripping.
Cupping isn’t a separate booking. We fold it into Integrated Massage Therapy, so the suction and the manual work back each other up. Book IMT and if your tissue is gripping, the cups come out.
Cupping is one of our favorite Release-stage tools because it changes tissue without asking your nervous system to brace. Your thermal scan often points exactly to where the cups belong. See how the Method works →
This technique lives inside Integrated Massage Therapy. FSA/HSA eligible.