The Gentle side of manual care for your body: low force

What is Craniosacral Therapy?

This is the more gentle procedure to ease the distortion of the body, from the 27 cranial bones in the head to the three pelvic bones (middle one called sacrum). The developer was Dr DeJarnette an astounding chiropractor from America in the 1950’s onward. It can used from babies with sucking problems and upsets through

Most people think that Craniosacral Therapy is for back pain, headaches or head or birth trauma and other complaints. Although Craniosacral Therapy is usually successful for treating these health disorders this is just the tip of the iceberg.

We may use wedges or blocks for the pelvis, sternal roll, big roll, and little wedges, lots of pressure point release called CMRT and a plethora of gentle release techniques in and around the head.

Yes we wear gloves to place pressure inside your mouth on the sinuses, TMJ, Sphenoid, mandible and many parts. I first started using it in 1987 and it took a good twenty years to get good, and there is still much more I would like to learn

Craniosacral Therapy believes that everyone is born with an underlying infinite order of intelligence or “vital force” energy ( often referred to as” chi” in Chinese Medicine). This is the same intelligence that keeps your heart beating and runs your body. This constant undetectable intelligence is carried by the nervous system to every cell in your body supplying it with all the information it needs to function as planned, every day.

Craniosacral Therapists call this innate Intelligence. This is the intelligence that heals the body and is always with you! If every cell in your body is functioning at 100% then you will have optimal health. Unfortunately structural imbalances and spinal misalignments can interfere with the transmission of this innate intelligence, causing imbalance and altered cell formation that in time can create many health problems and disease.

The main job of a Craniosacral Therapist is to help correct structural imbalances in the human body allowing the innate intelligence to go where it needs to go and to restore impeded circulation, alleviate any nerve impingement and thus allowing dysfunctional cells to heal themselves. The power that made your body can heal your body. Craniosacral Therapy helps to turn on your healing power and creates optimal health.

Craniosacral Therapy does not involve any spinal manipulations or adjustments but focuses on the use of Light-touch therapies to align the structural integrity of the body that is the root cause of many structural and spinal imbalances. In other words using leverage between two body parts over time while you are breathing. The Craniosacral Therapist therefore may employ a number of techniques from different healing modalities to assist in rebalancing the integrity of the body. Techniques may include, but are not limited to: Sacro-Occipital Technique (SOT), Total Body Modification (TBM), Trevel’s trigger points,  Myofascial Release Therapy, Positional Release Therapy, Muscle Energy technique Therapy, Polarity Therapy or Acupressure.

You can blend it with other techniques well, like Activator, Applied Kinesiology and anything else you can imagine, or keep it stand alone (purist)

Dr Steven Griffith Redcliffe Wellness 17 Silvyn Street REDCLIFFE 4020 Qld (07)32842065