Now we are going to take the cups off, so as I take this cup off I will try not to make a mess. I am taking the suction away, and then I am going to tip the cup, and this is the consistency of the blood which comes out, you can see it is a little bit thicker than what you would normally expect and that is just because it is higher in proteins – when you have the process of inflammation going on, you have a lot of different chemicals that get released in the blood, especially if the blood has been quite stagnant, it tends to be kind of saturated with proteins, and dead cells and other different debris, and this is what makes the blood slightly thicker.

4:58
Okay so we are removing the second cup now, same thing again, take the suction off, tip the cup, you can see that the blood is quite gelatinous, which is not something you would normally experience when you take a blood test or if you are giving blood – the blood doesn’t gel up this quickly. So like I said usually when there is inflammation in and around the knee area you will find the blood gels up a little bit quicker like this, just as a result of higher content of proteins in the blood.

5:32
And the bleeding stops pretty much straight away. So you can see from what we have done here, tiny tiny little scratches on the surface of the skin – pretty harmless, and same on the other side, the bleeding pretty much stops straight away, as you can see there is nothing coming out from that area. Those tiny little cuts or tiny little scratches are healed up pretty much straight away, and that’s it.

5:58 Now what were the results? 

Patient: When I had it done on my knee, unlike having it done on my shoulders, to watch it being done, it was quite an interesting experience, seeing some blood come out of my knee. But it was almost instantaneous, it was ‘light on, light off’  It reduced the swelling instantaneously and the improvement was immediate.