It all started when Gwyneth Paltrow showed up to the 2004 premiere of Anchorman with what looked like circular bruising on her back. But what GP was really baring on her shoulders were the tell-tale ...

Candice Nelson had been a massage therapist for years when she decided to try massage cupping – a practice that creates vaccuum pressure inside of a cup to pull stagnant blood and toxins out of the ...

First Gwyneth Paltrow. Now Michael Phelps (along with various other swimmers at the Rio 2016 Olympics) is engaging in the ancient — and very legal — practice of cupping to ease their overworked sore ...

(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Michael Phelps continues to dominate in the pool at the Rio Olympics, racking up even more medals but the talk has turned to the bruises on his skin and the bodies of other athletes ...

If you’ve watched sports, you may have noticed some athletes with strange dark circles on their arms, backs or legs. Rests assured, these strange bruise-like marks weren’t left from alien abductions.

You may have seen celebrities and professional athletes with circular marks on their backs that come from the practice of cupping. While this form of complementary medicine has gained popularity in ...

An ancient Chinese form of massage, called "cupping," continues to grow in popularity in North Carolina. Todd Shore with Camel City Massage places the cups on problem areas and then uses suction to ...

There is nothing better than a long, relaxing massage. Too bad massages, along with everything else that is good in life, were cancelled because of coronavirus. During the shutdown, I spent hours ...

Michael Phelps started a trend when he showed off a back full of circular bruises during the 2016 Summer Olympics, a result of the massage technique known as cupping. The welts looked painful, but ...