How Disorders Arise
Any alteration in cranio-sacral motion anywhere in the body will create symptoms sooner or later and if left, will eventually lead to structural disorder, degeneration or disease.
Disorders in cranio-sacral motion are most commonly caused by birth, injury, stress, acute illness, shock, surgery, drugs, dental trauma, or physical, emotional or mental trauma. The effect of these body assaults is to cause tissue tightening, compression, contraction, strain, torsion, or fixation, either locally or systemically. The resultant reduction in cranio-sacral function causes the body to compensate mechanically and physiologically. Sometimes complete disruption occurs. The nerve supply to tissue is altered and its blood supply reduced. These effects create congestion, inflammation, aching, stiffness and pain, and are followed by alterations in mechanical function, emotional response and mental well being. If such a state remains longer term, dysfunction can become degeneration, disease and even mental illness.
It is very important to recognise the state of 'dysfunction' that can exist between the extremes of good health and disease. In a state of dysfunction, no actual disease, or pathology is present, so a medical diagnosis is not possible, but the person is not well and may have vague symptoms, such as aches, pains, tiredness, depression, etc. It is in this area of 'dysfunction' that complementary therapies commonly work and often work well, it is also the area of 'prevention'. Remember that, just because no cause can be found for your symptoms, this does not mean that nothing is wrong, something somewhere is 'dysfunctional'. If the dysfunction can be traced, then you have the potential to be helped.