Can gua sha work to alleviate pain?
Photo: Getty Images I learned about gua sha in a roundabout way: I like to watch ASMR videos on YouTube, and some of my favorites are ones in which a host massages her guest’s face and neck with a blunt stone tool.
Photo: Bradwesley69/Wikimedia To prepare, I spoke with Dr. Victoria Chan Harrison, MD, a rehabilitation medicine specialist at Columbia and Weill Cornell. “Gua sha predates modern medicine, so some call it a folk remedy,” she told me, “but early promising research does support its use for chronic pain.
I asked her about the gentler form of gua sha, like the kind I’d seen in the ASMR videos, which has become popular both as an in-clinic treatment and in online DIY tutorials. She was skeptical: “It’s hard to say that gentle facial gua sha will definitely work” in the same way as traditional gua sha, she said, “because it doesn’t trigger the signature red-and-purple skin changes.
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