Self-paced Online Home Study 18 CE Hour Advanced Myofascial Cupping

PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE THIS NONREFUNDABLE, TIME-SENSITIVE COURSE UNLESS YOU ARE READY TO COMPLETE IT WITHIN 1-MONTH OF PURCHASE.  This course must be completed within 31-days of purchase, before it expires and your account is subsequently deactivated. Course access time starts from the minute of purchase.  Please do not wait until the last couple of days to start or complete training, because no training extensions are available for any reason, including tech issues. 

It is recommended to take this computer based training on an updated desktop computer or laptop. This training is provided via prerecorded video, with printed handouts that can be downloaded, as well as quiz(es) plus a course survey, to meet board requirements to issue CE credit.  You can learn more about taking our self-paced home study training by watching this quick start video:

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This course is approved by NCBTMB, FL, SC, GA & TN boards of massage and all states that accept NCBTMB hours.  If you are taking this for CE credit and unsure if this course meets your CE requirements, please check with your own board to ensure you will receive the credit you need PRIOR TO registering or paying.  

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This class is taught as two separate subjects joined as one: Myofascial Release with Orthopedic Cupping.  Your first 6 CE hours of training will review the world of fascia, and how to manipulate it through strokes with your fingers, hands and forearms.  Your remaining 12 CE hours of training will explore the world of western cupping practices. Training includes basic information such as cupping contraindications plus hands-on practice of advanced cupping maneuvers to incorporate in an isolated treatment area or as a full body protocol.

Orthopedic cupping massage is used to release superficial facia, myofascia and other soft tissues. It's one of bodywork’s latest and greatest techniques where east meets west and turned into best! Included in this class are over 25 cupping skills application and soft tissue manipulation instructor demonstrations plus myofascial j-stroking, palming, alphabet stroking, clock technique testing and more.  Many of the hands-on applications can be practiced on oneself during training.  

Cupping has highly evolved since the 2021 London & 2016 Rio Olympics. Traditional meridian cupping was set aside, and orthopedic cupping massage emerged as a new distinct form of massage and bodywork. It stretches and releases soft tissue restrictions which can create a human domino effect of better tissue metabolism that can lead to better athletic performance and other health related benefits. While stationary/eastern/meridian cupping is still practiced today with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), orthopedic cupping provides a new bodywork approach.

Orthopedic cupping is used for sports injuries, alignment issues, to increase healing and circulation as well as general overall health. We will demonstrate spot treatments and full body sessions.  The concept of our Orthopedic Cupping class is to apply this ancient eastern medicine to western musculoskeletal issues and bodywork.  This 12-hour class also includes:

• cupping history
• theory
• contraindications
• endangerment sites
• equipment types 
• equipment care
• general cupping rules
• cupping methods
• extensive cupping research
• demonstrations and practice along time of various cupping routines proven to be effective from published research studies
• over a dozen different types of cupping techniques for various athletic, orthopedic and spot treatments
• Instructor Demonstration: a full body myofascial decompression treatment
• Instructor Demonstration: full body cupping massage
• a brief vacuum therapies lecture
• multiple instructor demonstrations and with student hands-on follow-along practice time

This class will also teach the pros and cons of the different cupping materials and mediums available for orthopedic bodywork and general cupping purposes. We recommend using plastic air pump cups above all else, and we will provide instructor demonstrations to use the plastic air pump cups, plus silicone bell and push cups too.  To learn why we recommend plastic air cups above others, you can view the 2nd half of this article at Massage Magazine: https://www.massagemag.com/orthopedic-cupping-massage-127635/

This class does not use any electrical machines to perform cupping.  This is a modern up-to-date class with real hands-on cupping applications that uses individual cups to promote circulation, pain relief, increased range of motion, improved athletic performance, etc.  Orthopedic cupping massage primarily uses plastic and silicone cups which are within most massage therapy scopes of practice because the client’s soft tissue is constantly being massaged with a tool in movement which is the cup. 

Please do not attempt to take this training if you are visually impaired.  Practitioners must be able to see the skin at all times during our orthopedic cupping maneuvers, to ensure this skin is intact, there are no visual contraindications that even the client might not be aware of, especially on their posterior body, and that there is no skin tearing and/or bleeding with cupping application and/or maneuvers.  Practitioners can not provide cupping, reduce pressure or stop maneuvers when they see contraindications or skin deterioration through a clear cup, which cannot always be felt, but should be visible to anyone who is not visually impaired.  Tearing the skin and blood exposure is easily avoidable by sight. To avoid blood exposure or harming a client, it is our opinion that visually impaired practitioners should not take/practice our orthopedic cupping training to avoid harm to themselves and their client(s).

This cupping class is for students who are new to cupping.  This class would not be appropriate for therapists who are already practicing or are proficient in Tuina, TCM or Cupping.  The entire orthopedic cupping class solely addresses orthopedic/western musculoskeletal issues - Chinese Meridians are not addressed or covered in this class.

Self-paced Online Home Study 18 CE Hour Advanced Myofascial Cupping CE Broker Course Tracking #:20-1281646

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About your Instructor:

Selena Belisle has practiced massage therapy for 30 years.  She started with sports massage in 1989 and sought formal “full body” massage therapy training in 1995 in a 1,000+ hour program at the Massage Institute of New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Selena completed her first Traditional Chinese Medicine Certification from the NE School of Acupuncture in the 1990s.   She went on to complete a 2^nd TCM Certification which included cupping, tuina and Chinese healing methods in a month-long program from the Beijing Hospital in Beijing China in 2000.  She has also travelled to Xi’an China to view the terracotta warriors, the outskirts of Beijing to walk “The Great Wall”,  as well as Shanghai China to view the Huangpu River aka “the Bund”.  Her touring of China was most importantly used to spend time amongst the Chinese people and learn more about their history, practices and culture.  She has visited many authentic Chinese temples, burial grounds, places of healing and sacred sites as part of her Chinese studies.  You can view a more complete list of Selena’s professional accolades, experience and training by clicking HERE. Selena also founded and managed one of New England’s largest alternative health care clinics in the 1990s, which included 4 acupuncturists and 4 chiropractors and over 40 massage therapists from 1996, until she sold in 2005.  It was here where she helped thousands of others with TCM care including extensive cupping massage techniques and other forms of orthopedic bodywork.

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Instructor Selena Belisle's newest article in Orthopedic Cupping Bodywork from Massage Magazine: