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CRANIAL/SACRAL
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 This method derives from osteopathic
medicine and is a powerful adjunct to chiropractic care.
Craniosacral therapy works indirectly with the meninges and
related structures suurounding the brain and spinal cord.
This makes fundamental changes to the spine by increasing
motion and suppleness and tends to improve function and
organization to the nervous system.
Often, when chiropractic care is making useful but temporary
changes, craniosacral therapy is needed. The approach
reinforces and restores motion to the spine, pelvis, and
skull that is very minute, but necessary to the optimum
function of your body. Your nervous system functions much
more efficiently after craniosacral therapy.
CRANIOPATHY
A POWERFUL APPROACH TO WELLNESS
by Dr. Barry Goldberg, DC, Certified Craniopath, DACBN
If you can imagine yourself at a puppet show you will be
able to understand Craniosacral . Very small strings
attached to the puppets' arms, legs, and head are all
attached to a wood block called a tressel, which the
puppeteer holds in his hands and controls all the movements
of the puppet. Your body is the puppet and your skull is the
tressel. If there is a problem at the tressel (skull) no
matter what the puppeteer (doctor) does to the puppet (body)
and no matter how many times he untangles the strings, the
problems (pain or dysfunction) will always recur until he
repairs the problem at the tressel (skull).
Both cranial and diaphragmatic respiration are controlled by
a small body of nerve tissue that lies at the base of the
brain known as the respiratory center. The center functions
as the "master control," keeping perfect timing between
cranial and diaphragmatic respiration. We breathe in with
diaphragmatic respiration as the brain expands with cranial
respiration and the cranial bones move outward to
accommodate. When we breathe out with diaphragmatic
respiration, the brain contracts in a cranial respiration
and the bones retract. When one or more of these cranial
bones are moving improperly it is known as a cranial fault.
Cranial faults can cause many symptoms from headaches to
backaches or any malfunction of the body. The most common
cause of these faults is difficulty in the birth process.
The skull of the newborn baby is very pliable. The use of
forceps on the soft skull during the birth experience can be
traumatic and may cause cranial faults. Most severe cases of
cranial faults develop before the age of seven. However,
people develop cranial faults later in life from traumatic
accidents, i.e. car or blows to the head. Emotional trauma
is also a known cause of cranial faults and should not be
overlooked. Severe emotional stress causes the body to adopt
a defensive torking position in which the spine and skull
receive as much punishment as if they had undergone physical
trauma. Continuing research will discover more about cranial
faults.
Cranial adjustment - The doctor holds the patient's head in
a prescribed manner so that bones that are not meant to move
are stabilized. Then, he makes the correction by pressing on
one of the cranial bones in a specific direction while the
patient breathes in or out in a pattern that will assist the
correction. These adjustments are rarely painful. However,
they can sometimes create emotional reactions, from a
feeling of euphoria to depression. These reactions are
temporary. Often, patients report having no reaction at all
or a feeling of relief and a release of pressure. Cranial
adjustments by a craniopath have produced profound and
dramatic results for many people. These patients return to
work and recreational activities that were long-abandoned
and labeled painful. Their lives are restored to them as
quickly as if a magical wand had been waved over
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