Same here.

I've been playing around with these Chinese suction cups for about a month now, and they seem to work pretty well on trigger points.

Saturday afternoon, I had these knots in the back of my arm, and shoulder, that were driving me crazy. Kind of in the rotator cuff area. I used the Theracane on them and that helped a little bit. Then I got the idea to use a Chinese cup on them.

I had my wife put the cup on because I couldn't reach back there. I told her to just feel around for a tight spot and put the cup on it. She did, and after about 5 minutes the trigger point relaxed. It felt so much better, that I had her keep moving the cup around, until we covered seven or eight different spots. Anywhere there was a knot.

I'm not sure if these will work consistently for that, but so far I'm liking them a lot. All the muscles I've used them on seem be getting softer and more pliable.

I've been using these Chinese cups pretty much daily now. I put them anywhere I can make them stick. Neck, shoulders, arms, legs, back, hips, armpits. Pretty much everywhere.

They seem to do several things. For one, they pull more blood through the muscle and help it relax and soften up. The other thing is, they pull on the muscles, rather than push, so it helps to decompress things and separate layers of muscle. I like to move around when the cup, or cups, are on there, that way it stretches the muscles even more.

Really, the only downside I see to these, is, all the purple marks they leave on your skin, but they fade after a few days, so I'm not too worried about it. I feel like they're helping me move better so it's worth it.

I've been using these Chinese suction cups for couple of months now and I like them a lot. I've been putting them on an area and then moving around. I call it, "Mobility cupping". It's kind of like combining mobility exercises along with the cupping. It's working well for me.

I've been able to get more cups at a time to stay on there, so that tells me my muscles are getting softer and more pliable. Sometimes the cups fall off after a while but that's OK. So far, none have broken when they hit the floor. When my muscles are pulled into these cups, and I move around, it gives me a very intense stretch, and I think it helps to decompress things. I know my movement has improved a lot.

I've been using these Chinese vacuum cups directly on the thoracic outlet area. The sides of my neck, and the upper chest and clavicle area. It's pretty intense. I can't say I enjoy it that much but it needs to be done. I've heard cupping called, "Myofascial decompression" so we'll see how much it helps.

So far, it hasn't made my symptoms any worse, and my movement is improving, so I think I'm on the right track. These areas get really purple after, so that tells me it's pulling a lot of stagnant blood out of there. I've had surgery on one side, so there's a lot of scar tissue there as well. It seems to be softening up some from using these cups.

I've been working on my mobility for 39 months now, so I'm 1/4 of the way into my fourth year of this. Still, no doctors, and no therapists, just me working alone, figuring things out as I go along.

The Internet has been a huge help to me, without that, I would never have gotten this far. I spend a lot of time studying human anatomy and movement. I'm physically not were I'd like to be but the progress is still coming. I'm excited to see how far I can take this. Even if I don't reach my goals, at least I'll know that I gave it my best shot.

My neck, spine, and ribcage seem to be the last areas to start loosening up. The Chinese vacuum cups are working really well on these areas. They help to pull the muscles away from the ribcage. They work really well on the neck as well.

I think the reason lying on foam rollers never worked well for me, is, they just put too much pressure on everything and caused flare-ups. These cups pull on small areas of muscle and fascia so they gradually loosen things up. I use them daily and keep rotating the areas I put them on. It's kind of like connect the dots.