Tweetyes it was stupid painful, yes i am bruised all to hell now and yes it opened up the entire area that was worked. you cant see it in the pic but she worked my obliques hips top of the glutes and my tail bone area as well. the amount of fluid it draws to the surface during the repair after the sessions is insane. you can see how much water it pulled up and that's about an hour after i had it done. now i am dehydrated as hell and pounding water. she says i came in well hydrated then she did her thing and dehydrated me and now i have to rehydrate all those muscles and stuff for both healing and to get them to fill back out again. pretty cool to me and well worth the pain and discomfort to get stuff fixed. all done in under 30 mins