Invented at Harvard in 1959, ECP technology was adapted by the Chinese who developed the technology and use it currently for over 63 specific diagnoses. The treatment is taken by lying on a table, inflatable cuffs are placed on your calves, upper and lower thighs and your buttocks. You’re then hooked up to an EKG, in the diastole phase of your heart beat the cuffs on your lower extremity rapidly inflate and deflate milking blood back toward the heart.