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Syracuse basketball forward Marek Dolezaj undergoes cupping treatment to remedy minor neck injury

After the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball game against Oakland, junior forward Marek Dolezaj noticed he had a stiff neck. He doesn’t remember the exact play, but thinks something happened in the beginning of that Oakland game.

To alleviate that stiffness, he underwent a cupping treatment with Syracuse trainer Brad Pike recently. Pike and Dolezaj tried other treatments initially, but Dolezaj suggested that nothing else worked quite as well as cupping.

“We tried some other things and nothing really worked,” Dolezaj said. “After Brad Pike tried this it helped.