If you’re wondering what craniosacral therapy is, you’re probably not alone. Craniosacral therapy is a gentle, non-invasive massage which focuses on the central nervous system to help relieve stress and ease pain. Suitable for all ages and with benefits ranging from migraine and IBS relief, to easing colic in infants, craniosacral therapy is a hands-on and safe therapy that uses light pressure to normalise your body’s functioning and restore equilibrium.
Also referred to as CST, craniosacral therapy is one of the fastest growing modalities in alternative medicine. With its roots in osteopathic medicine, craniosacral therapy is much younger than ancient healing modalities like Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Today, craniosacral therapy is finding its place as an alternative holistic healing therapy often part of an integrative approach.
As a gentle hands-on massage, suitable for all ages, CST focuses on the central nervous system – the most important system in the human body – made up of the brain and spinal cord. Craniosacral therapy works gently to relieve compression in the head, neck and back. By relieving tension, CST boosts health and immunity and promotes a feeling of wellbeing.The craniosacral system is the fluid and membranes that surround, protect and nourish your brain and spinal cord. Day-to-day stress and strain causes your bodily tissues – known as connective tissue or fascia – to tighten and your craniosacral system to be distorted. These distortions cause tension to form around your brain and spinal cord, causing restrictions. These restrictions can be detected and corrected by methods of light touch – applied by a specialised craniosacral therapist.
Your CST session can range in length from 30 minutes to 60 or 90 minutes. Like many kinds of therapy, the more regular your sessions, the more effective the results. Most patients do between three and 10 sessions but each case is different and can be discussed with your therapist. The starting point though is for your therapist to learn more about your medical history and understand your symptoms. Through your session you’ll remain fully clothed and recline on a massage treatment table. Using a light touch, your therapist will gently feel various areas of your body to evaluate your craniosacral system. This helps to test for ease of motion and rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid. Your therapist can then release restrictions using soft-touch techniques to normalise the environment around the brain and spinal cord. This specialised treatment enhances your body’s ability to self-correct.Migraines and headaches: Research shows that craniosacral therapy may reduce headaches in those suffering from severe migraines.
Quality of life: Another study indicates the benefits for fibromyalgia patients, where CST helps to reduce pain and fatigue, promote rest, mood and physical function, and reduce anxiety levels. While more scientific research is needed, anecdotal evidence suggests other benefits of craniosacral therapy. These include helping to treat: • Poor sleep quality and insomnia
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January 25, 2021
Boost your health, immunity and wellbeing with Craniosacral Therapy (CST) by gently relieving stress, soft tissue restrictions, and soothing pain.
Craniosacral therapy (CST) is a gentle hands-on non-invasive technique that uses a light touch to examine membranes and movement of the fluids in and around the central nervous system – the processing centre of the body – made up of the brain and spinal cord. By relieving tension in the central nervous system, CST corrects and harmonises the craniosacral system, eliminating pain, and boosting health and immunity.
By using a soft touch, specialised craniosacral therapists are able to release restrictions in the soft tissues that surround the central nervous system which have great influence over the body’s ability to function optimally.
CST can soothe pain and release both emotional and physical stress and tension. It's also thought to help restore cranial mobility and ease or release restrictions of the head, neck, and nerves. Every day your body endures stresses and strains that it must work to compensate for. Unfortunately, these changes often cause body tissues to tighten and distort the craniosacral system. These distortions can then cause tension to form around the brain and spinal cord resulting in restrictions. This can create a barrier to the healthy performance of the central nervous system, and potentially every other system it interacts with. Such restrictions can be detected and corrected using simple methods of CST touch.
Before commencing your treatment your trained practitioner will get a full understanding of your medical history and your specific requirements. The client is fully clothed and reclined on a massage treatment table, or seated. With a light touch, the CST practitioner uses their hands to evaluate the craniosacral system by gently feeling various locations of the body to test for the ease of motion and rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid pulsing around the brain and spinal cord. Soft-touch techniques are then used to release restrictions in any tissues influencing the craniosacral system. By normalizing the environment around the brain and spinal cord it enhances the body's ability to self-correct.
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