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Cupping Therapy by the Numbers, 2026

We mapped cupping therapy across America — 14,489 providers with 1,424,461 customer reviews between them, each one shown to actually offer cupping rather than merely associated with it by Google. Here's what the data says: what a session costs, which states have the most providers per resident, where the cupping capitals are, what styles you can actually get, and who performs it. (Journalists & bloggers: cite freely with a link.)

How much does cupping cost? The one-line answer

The most-asked question in the niche, answered from the 4880 providers in the directory that publicly post a price: a standalone session is about $100, with most providers landing between $66 and $135 — and it's often cheaper as an add-on to a massage or acupuncture visit. The full picture — price bands, why the spread is so wide, and the state-by-state index — is on the cupping cost hub and the Cupping Therapy Cost Index.

Which states have the most cupping providers per capita?

Nationally there are about 42.6 cupping providers per million residents. The per-capita crown goes to Massachusetts at 90.9 per million — 649 providers for a state of 7.1 million people — with New Hampshire at 89.4 and Connecticut at 87.3 close behind. Cupping clusters where wellness and traditional-medicine culture runs deep, not simply where the most people live. At the other end, Hawaii has just 18.7 per million.

#	State	Providers	Per million people
1	Massachusetts	649	90.9
2	New Hampshire	126	89.4
3	Connecticut	321	87.3
4	Vermont	49	75.6
5	Wyoming	43	73.2
6	Rhode Island	81	72.8
7	Oregon	310	72.6
8	Colorado	418	70.2
9	Idaho	139	69.4
10	Minnesota	399	68.9
11	New Jersey	633	66.6
12	Washington	504	63.3
13	South Dakota	57	61.6
14	Utah	209	59.7
15	Maine	83	59.1

By raw count the big states still win — California has 1,732, Florida has 923, Texas has 885 — but per resident, Massachusetts is the easiest place in America to find a provider near you. Full state table: cupping-therapy-providers-per-capita.csv.

What kinds of cupping can you actually get?

Cupping isn't one technique. 6.8% of providers offer at least two different styles. The most common across the directory: Massage (gliding) cupping (22.1%), Sports / myofascial decompression (8.6%), Fire cupping (6.5%), Facial cupping (4.9%). Every count is a floor — a provider is credited with a style only where its own site or a review proves it — so these grow as our crawl continues.

Cupping style	Providers	Share
Massage (gliding) cupping	3,197	22.1%
Sports / myofascial decompression	1,253	8.6%
Fire cupping	946	6.5%
Facial cupping	714	4.9%
Dry cupping	579	4%
Wet cupping / hijama	355	2.5%

The full breakdown — the style mix plus the provider-type league table (who performs cupping, and how the 14,445 classified providers split across acupuncturists, massage therapists, PTs, chiropractors, hijama specialists and med spas) — is on the provider types & style mix page. Choosing a style? See the types of cupping explained.

America's cupping capitals

The cities with the most cupping providers in the directory, by raw count. Top of the list: Chicago, IL (51) · Austin, TX (49) · San Diego, CA (44). The full ranking — raw count and per resident — is on America's Cupping Capitals.

#	City	Cupping providers
1	Chicago, IL	51
2	Austin, TX	49
3	San Diego, CA	44
4	Portland, OR	42
5	Philadelphia, PA	42
6	Los Angeles, CA	42
7	Houston, TX	39
8	Denver, CO	38
9	Seattle, WA	37
10	Oakland, CA	37

America's densest cupping cities

Cupping providers per 100k residents, cities over 50k population. Raw counts favor the biggest metros, so this table is the other lens — the mid-size cities where providers cluster hardest per resident.

#	City	Providers	Per 100k
1	Parker, CO	16	24.4
2	Diamond Bar, CA	12	22.9
3	Delray Beach, FL	16	22.8
4	Bozeman, MT	13	22.5
5	Bend, OR	24	22.4
6	Boulder, CO	23	21.5
7	Grand Junction, CO	15	21.3
8	Bradenton, FL	12	20.6
9	Hoboken, NJ	12	20.3
10	Chapel Hill, NC	13	20.3
11	Asheville, NC	19	20
12	La Crosse, WI	10	19.6
13	Sarasota, FL	11	19
14	Bellevue, WA	29	18.8
15	Wilmington, NC	23	18.4

Inside the providers

Of the 14,489 providers in the directory, 14,179 are verified cupping providers — cupping is clearly part of what they do. 386 offer hijama (wet cupping) across 37 states. From our website and review mining so far (these counts are floors — they require evidence, and enrichment is ongoing):

Providers that…	Count	Share
Offer hijama / wet cupping	386	2.7%
Have a female practitioner available	5,031	35%
Mention accepting insurance	5,623	39%
Take HSA / FSA cards	1,473	10%
Offer online booking	10,671	74%
Offer home or mobile visits	3,663	25%
Take walk-ins	5,601	39%

These attributes are why we badge listings — filter any city or state page by hijama, female practitioner, insurance, online booking, or home visits, browse cupping by style, or see who performs cupping.

Small-town providers worth the drive

Cupping providers in towns under 30,000 people that still pull hundreds of reviews — destination clinics that outdraw their whole zip code.

J Sterling's Wellness Spa - Lake Mary — Lake Mary, FL ★ 4.9 (2,576 reviews)
Innovations The Salon & Spa — Merrimack, NH ★ 4.9 (2,048 reviews)
Island Spa Club — Glen Cove, NY ★ 5 (1,451 reviews)
Kneaded Relief Massage & Spa — Southgate, MI ★ 4.9 (1,355 reviews)
AcuQi TCM Spa — Katy, TX ★ 4.9 (1,264 reviews)
Safety Harbor Therapeutic Massage Center — Safety Harbor, FL ★ 5 (1,238 reviews)
Spavia Austin Landing — Miamisburg, OH ★ 4.8 (1,197 reviews)
RUYI SPA LLC — Destin, FL ★ 4.8 (1,151 reviews)
Medical Massage Clinic — Fredericksburg, VA ★ 4.9 (1,123 reviews)
The Upper Hand Day Spa — Conyers, GA ★ 4.8 (1,098 reviews)
Reddy Care Physical & Occupational Therapy — Great Neck, NY ★ 4.9 (1,070 reviews)
The Head Spa Sanctuary — Pineville, NC ★ 4.9 (998 reviews)
Harmony Falls Massage Clinic and Spa- Woodstock — Woodstock, IL ★ 4.9 (983 reviews)
Pure Wellness Chiropractic — Smyrna, DE ★ 5 (954 reviews)
Spavia - Sparta — Sparta, NJ ★ 4.9 (910 reviews)

More data: the full stats suite

Each deep-dive below is its own dataset page with a downloadable CSV — cite freely with a link.

The Cupping Therapy Cost Index — how much a session costs, nationally and by state: median price, price bands, and the coverage behind the numbers.
America's Cupping Capitals — the cities with the most cupping providers, raw count and per resident.
The Best Cities for Cupping — provider density × provider quality, scored for every US city over 50k.
Who performs cupping & the style mix — the provider-type breakdown (acupuncturists, massage therapists, PTs, chiropractors, hijama specialists, med spas) plus which styles the directory offers.
America's most underserved cupping cities — the biggest US cities with zero or one cupping provider.

Methodology: provider counts from our continuously maintained national directory (public business listings, filtered to genuine cupping providers — every listing has real evidence, on its own site or in its reviews, that it offers cupping). Attribute counts (hijama, female practitioner, insurance, HSA/FSA, online booking, home visits, walk-ins), the style mix and the provider-type breakdown are mined from provider websites and customer reviews, so every count is a floor that grows as our crawls continue; session prices are the providers' own publicly posted figures; population = US Census 2024 estimates. Per-capita = providers ÷ state population × 1,000,000. Want the dataset for a story? Email us — we're happy to cut the numbers by state, metro, provider type or style, with attribution.