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Cupping doesn't hurt but if you do it over scar tissue or areas that are bruised or recovering from surgery, things can get a little painful. I am currently recovering from a arthroscopic knee surgery and in PT they started to use cupping to loosen my scar tissue and release muscle tension. It's pretty painful in my situation, like 9/10 painful when they do it over the areas next to my knee cap. They suction the cupping tool and them move it around the knee cap in sort of a massaging manner and over the tendons and healing surgical sites (there were 6 tiny incisions). I've had 3 sessions already and it gets less painful each time and I've seen great results. The tissues are less stiff and the quad/patellar tendon is less painful with activation. Background on my surgery is that I had an arthroscopic surgery to explore to see if there was serious damage and to clean out osteoarthritis. Unfortunately they did find extensive damage to the cartilidge on my lateral femoral condyle. They did the OATS procedure and microfracture to regenerate my cartilidge. OATS is when they take healthy cartilidge from your bone in a place that's not a weight bearing area and transfer it to the damaged place. I had 3 plugs of cartilidge taken from my medial femoral trochlea and planted in on my lateral femoral condyle. They also microfractured in 6 other areas to stimulate growth. I'm in week 5 of 8 weeks of not being able to stand on my leg. Shit got real, fast. Recovery has been really good tho, shout out to my therapy team @ South Florida institute of sports medicine.

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