Sports Cupping Therapy ( Al Hijamah )

Sports Cupping  Therapy ( Al Hijamah )

Dr. Ahmed Helmy Saleh

Dr_ahmedcupping@yahoo.com

subject of Sports Cupping is very interesting  , I began work in this field after I see  the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) role in Cupping therapy and his order to use cupping , he (peace be upon him) use cupping on his thigh from the sprain was on it , I inspired by these applications in the field of sport injuries, also intervene in cases of first aid, including make cupping.

I started working in this area , my work in the sports medicine field give me supportive and enrich my experience in Cupping Therapy and its relationship with sport injury  ,I write  about cupping therapy and  how to use it to affect in the case of sports injuries, and many more, that’s in my big work of a comprehensive book for the science of Cupping Therapy include the foundations of Cupping Therapy and sports in year 2006/2007.

At the level of scientific publishing in the area of cupping and their relationship to sport you found two book , the first is my book and another book .

The first book talked about the cupping in the field of sports books were published in 2007 first of them in Arabic, and the second in English, and print it in German.

First author: Ahmed Helmi Saleh, I talk in my book entitled "Whole in cupping therapy", I talks about cupping therapy and Sports medicine :

- cupping physiology of Healing and treatment in Sports injuries.

- Sports Cupping Therapy ( Al Hijamah ) and its role in first aid, and how to apply.

- Sports Cupping Therapy ( Al Hijamah ) and its role in healing(speed recovery).

- Sports Cupping Therapy ( Al Hijamah ) and its role as an activator in the field of sports.

- Applications in sports cupping (cupping massage to deal with injuries).

Book II by the author: Ilkay Zihni Chirali, entitled "Traditional Chinese medicine cupping therapy" And talking about cupping therapy and Sports medicine.

Both books published in the same year 2007 the book Arabian registration in 2006.

then photographs show the cupping I have some athletes in Olympad Beijing in 2008, dealt with a lot of Western media.

Been doing some research on cupping in sports later in the colleges of physical education in Egypt and Russia, including what has been discussed and which was still under investigation, including two papers (for Master dgree) in Tanta University Faculty of Physical Education, one of the writer "Ahmed Helmy" in 2009 about Carpal Tunnel Syandrome. And the other for back pain by the researcher, "Safwat Musa" in 2009 .

But what is the definition of cupping sports, you have to understand that the definition of Sports Cupping  in the following definition:

Sports cupping organizer applications of cupping technique with athletes using dry cupping, wet cupping, water cupping, massage cupping, and electrical cupping in sports field as a method for Warm-up, Rehabilitation process, First aid, and Regain recovery healing, to achieve the best Sports Forms, which aims to achieve healing and relaxation and to restore vitality and help maintain the strength and flexibility.

 

Sports cupping filed

- Cupping Therapy physiology of Healing and treatment in Sports injuries.

- Sports Cupping Therapy ( Al Hijamah ) and its role in first aid, and how to apply. - Sports Cupping Therapy ( Al Hijamah ) and its role as an activator in the field of sports.

- Sports Cupping Therapy ( Al Hijamah ) and its role in healing(speed recovery). - Applications in sports cupping (cupping massage , rehabilitation of injuries).

sports Cupping Function

Clearly highlights the role of Cupping Therapy in finding solutions to several problems for the athletes at the same time, Cupping Therapy working for :

1 - speed healing through the restoration of resistance to lactic acid.

2 - the face of stray atoms of oxygen, thus preserving the vitality of the individual and the functional efficiency. 3 - equivalent amount of hemoglobin in the blood, as opposed to what happens in the physical activity levels of disturbance due to the increase in blood viscosity resulting from the performance is not rated.

4 - progress in the activities of rehabilitation for the safe and fast. 5 - Contribute to the preparation of sports before the training or competitive activity through various techniques, especially cupping massage and all kinds of Cupping water.

6 - cupping working as a filter for the blood to hunt for the anomaly in which where working cupping to purify the blood by a cryptographic Selective through the purification of blood through its major and 30-eighth the left ventricle to the tissues of the body and then return to the right atrium, where it remains cucurbitula an average of 5 s with where many of the major courses of blood, which would mean a nomination and selection of the components of the blood and increase the blood supply is constrained by the graduate of Marqlat in the blood, which means compensation of religion is vital to tissues efficiently.

Vital deficit: is the lack in cells supply with their requirements of food, oxygen and vital energy, which lead to negative reactions in those cells try to meet the requirements of underemployment.

Cupping therapy can help:

• chronic pain
• back ache and pelvic imbalance
• lordosis and lumbago
• neck and shoulder pain and tension
• headaches
• jaw discomfort, teeth grinding and clentching, temporomadibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) 
• sciatica
• carpal tunnel syndrome
• tennis and golfer's elbow
• general discomfort and muscular spasms
• chronic myofascial pain syndrome (CMPS) trigger point formation and pain
• Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• menstrual discomfort and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)
• fibromyalgia (FMS)
• chronic fatigue syndrome (ME), myalgic encephalitis (CFS)
• plantar fasciitis and heel spurs
• sporting and athletic injuries
• frozen shoulder and adhesive capsulitis
• costochndritis and Tietze's syndrome
• post surgical and injury
• chronic pelvic pain syndrome
• repetitive strain injury (RSI)
• tinnitus
• and many others.

For the sports person, athlete and performer can help

• pain syndrome 
• elite performance 
• ankle instability and Achilles tendonitis
• hammer toe, Morton's foot and neuroma
• shin splints and calf strain
• cruciate and collateral ligament trauma
• patellofemoral syndrome, runners knee and iliotibial band syndrome
• meniscus injury
• ostitis pubis
• groin and hamstring trauma and Gilmore's groin
• gluteal and piriformis strain
• rotator cuff injuries
• bursitis
• ankylosing spondylitis
• patella tendon inflammation or rupture
• osgood schlatters disease
• myositis ossificans
• frozen shoulder, adhesive capsulitis
• tendonitis, tendonopathy and tendon strain
• tennis and golfers elbow
• carpal tunnel syndrome
• impingement syndromes
• de Quervains syndrome
• thoracic outlet syndrome
• repetitive strain injuries (RSI)
• and many others

Cupping Therapy can also:

• increase energy
• increase breathing capacity
• restore muscular function and postural alignment
• relieve physical and emotional strain
• increase awareness of holding and bracing patterns
• promote relaxation
• balance the body, mind and soul
• promote self-healing