THE PROPHETIC WAY
What is cupping hijama therapy ?
HEALTH AVENUE CUPPING CLINIC, based in Leyton, East London, and Sofiane, the main therapist, working with professional athletes, will help us to understand this amazing medicine increasingly used by Athletes. Hijama was a common practice of the Prophet Muhammad (Allah’s peace be upon him) and his companions for the treatment of a range of ailments as well as a form of body maintenance and health promotion. In the Sunnah Hijama was praised by the Prophet and it may be regarded as a safe and non-invasive way of curing and preventing many diseases.
The premise of cupping stems more than 2000 years ago. It is a traditional Chinese medicine option that requires a professional to place cups on a patient’s body, which can be made using glass, bamboo or pottery. Since there are three different cupping options, dry, air and wet, it is first important to learn about these options in order to 
choose the right one. According to Health Avenue Cupping Clinic, in air cupping, the cup is placed on the skin and a suction device removes the air from the cup to create a vacuum. In dry cupping, the caregiver soaks a cotton ball or other material in alcohol, lights it, and places it inside the cup to remove the oxygen. In wet cupping hijama, the caregiver punctures the skin slightly to draw a small amount of blood and then places the cups on the patient’s body.
The word ‘hijama’ means ‘drawing out’ in Arabic. It is now being recognised as an alternative medicine or alternative way of treating different diseases and bodily disorders. Some sections of the modern medical community also endorse the various benefits of hijama and even encourage its practice for certain diseases. In this non-surgical procedure, toxins or ‘bad’ blood is drawn out from the body. On such selected points, blood is encouraged to accumulate and then sucked out by using a little vacuum system. The blood is made to accumulate on the surface of the skin where minute incisions are introduced on the skin; the blood comes out from the incisions and is collected in a cup from where it is removed.
Cupping for athletes
During the last 2016 Rio Olympic Games, athletes with cupping marks attracted a lot of attention. Cupping is indeed a common treatment used in sport. Enhance your performance by recovering from sports injuries quickly. Cupping can be used to help decrease an athlete’s recovery time after they have undergone strenuous training. The fact that cupping can help stimulate the chemical breakdown of any toxins within the body, means that athletes who need their muscles and tissues to heal quickly can expect this to happen when undergoing cupping therapy.
Since cupping also helps to reduce any inflammation within the body, athletes can expect an improvement in their blood flow, which in turn is beneficial when it comes to boosting their body’s immune system. A few specific conditions that cupping can address in athletes include plantar fasciitis, hamstring strains, sore muscles and back pain. Naby Sarr, Reading FC Football player and Senegal International, use it technic as regular treatment at Health Avenue: “Cupping is a therapy I use for many years, Sofiane helps me to recover quicker from injuries and be more efficient on the pitch.”, Idris El Mizouni, Leyton Orient FC and Tunisia National Team: “I do cupping and sports massage regularly to prevent injuries”.
Female Athletes as well take part of this blessing therapy: ”I will always be grateful to Cupping and Sofiane, He helps me to heal from an serious injuries” says Hawa Cissoko, West Ham Player and France National Team. The many athletes who do choose to undergo cupping therapy will often do so before participating in their sport, as well as after. Most have a goal of addressing specific aches and pains within their body, as they want to heal these areas as much as they possibly can before participating in their chosen sport. For athletes who have been diagnosed with a specific injury or have had to undergo a surgical process, cupping therapy can be used to help their body heal faster. Contact Nujum for more information and bookings
Benefits for athletes :
- Improve flexibility in a timelier manner and release fascia, Quicker muscle recovery, Optimal muscle range of motion and the biomechanics, Increase blood flow, Relaxes Muscles, Detoxifies the blood, better breathing.
- Cupping therapy is very effective for injuries such as: shoulder impingement injuries, chronic shoulder pain, low back pain, hip tightness, knee pain, patella tracking alignment, hamstring strains, and many more sports injuries. It’s the best combination with others sports therapy., as sport massage or Scrapping.
