Chronic pain hack: Part 11

Gua Sha!

Gua sha (Chinese: 刮痧), or kerokan (in Indonesia), is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practice in which a tool is used to scrape people's skin in order to produce light petechiae. Practitioners believe that gua sha releases unhealthy bodily matter from blood stasis within sore, tired, stiff, or injured muscle areas to stimulate new oxygenated blood flow to the areas, thus promoting metabolic cell repair, regeneration, healing, and recovery.

I have a different view of this. Watch the short video to see why.

Curious now?

Interested in trying it out?

Click here to get your gua sha tools.  Be sure to get the Emollient for IAFM too.  That way the tools will glide smoothly across the skin.

Cheers to pain-free living!

Nicole