Cranio-sacral Therapy

Cranio-sacral therapy is becoming increasingly popular today as more people seek effective hands-on treatment for their ailments from complementary therapists.

Cranio-sacral therapy is becoming increasingly popular today as more people seek effective hands-on treatment for their ailments from complementary therapists, due to inadequacies and short-sightedness within orthodox medicine and the NHS, because patients are often put off by the rigorous and sometimes repetitive and painful approach of traditional osteopathy and chiropractic, but still need treatment for back pain, and because the results obtained by cranio-sacral therapists are often dramatic from what appears to be very little effort

I acknowledge that people generally experience some difficulty in understanding cranio-sacral therapy. If you have ever watched a cranio-sacral therapist at work, sitting motionless for minutes on end, while holding their patient's head, spine, or feet, you could be forgiven for thinking that they weren't doing anything. In fact, you couldn't be further from the truth and that's one of the beauties of cranio-sacral therapy, it challenges the mind as well as the body, and because it challenges, it makes a difference.

Cranio-sacral therapy has its roots in anatomy, the living anatomy of the human body. Traditionally, medical students learn anatomy by studying and dissecting dead bodies. By contrast, through developing and using the sense of touch, cranio-sacral therapists study live tissue, living bodies. Dead tissue is motionless and inert, living tissue breathes, pulsates and moves rhythmically. Movement is a quality of life. Cranio-sacral therapy is the study, evaluation and treatment of living anatomy, the movement patterns of breathing tissue, principally involving the tissues of the body structure and the central nervous system (CNS). Because the movement patterns of the body structure and CNS are subtle, they cannot usually be seen, but can be felt by sensitive and trained hands, and measured by delicate electronic instrumentation. The difficulty, where it exists, is in being able to accept what can be felt but not seen. The reality, as always in life, ultimately lies in the experience and its effects.

 


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