11/25/2025
🪡 Acupuncture for Shoulder Pain
It can help by:
• Reducing inflammation (modulates cytokines, improves local circulation)
• Releasing tight muscles (especially upper traps, levator scapulae, infraspinatus, teres minor)
• Interrupting pain signaling at the spinal and central level
• Improving range of motion by relaxing guarding patterns
• Addressing underlying patterns (Liver qi stagnation, dampness, cold invasion, etc.)
🫧 Cupping for Shoulder Pain
It helps by:
• Releasing myofascial restrictions
• Increasing blood flow to tight or ischemic muscle tissue
• Reducing “stuck” adhesions and upper-body tension patterns
• Clearing local stagnation, especially when there’s that “tight, knotted, bound-up” feeling
