Also known as "skin scraping" or "scraping therapy," it's used to treat chronic pain, relieve stress and even help with headaches. Janet Shaffer, an acupuncturist at Duke Health Integrative Medicine Center in Durham, North Carolina, called gua sha one of her favorite techniques for freeing up the fascia — the connective tissue that wraps every structure in the body. "For some people, it's like the knife comes out of the back," Shaffer said of the reactions she has seen from patients after gua sha treatment. "It's like loosening a stuck jar." |
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