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What is Muscle Scraping and is it any good?
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What is Muscle Scraping and is it any good? Muscle scraping is a method of myofascial release that can be performed on oneself or by a therapist. It evolved from the Chinese method of massage therapy guasha (Gua Sha) which is over a thousand years old. The purpose of this rather aggressive rubbing of the skin and the fascia that is connected to it is to create micro tears or breaking (wounds) in the soft tissue. These small wounds call the initiation of the four healing stages as following: Stop bleeding by binding the blood into the wounds....