Cupping therapy is a form of oriental medicine that creates a local suction on the skin. The local suction mobilizes blood flow in the area and helps promote healing. However, conventional cupping therapy applied same force to everyone without considering about physical conditions such as age, sex, or weight. In order to make a personalized cupping therapy, we added a NIRS channel inside of the cup as an optical sensor to measure blood oxygenation during cupping.
Optical sensor for personalized cupping therapy (Sungchul Kim and Evgenii Kim)