Cranial Osteopathy
Cranial osteopathy is a technique that is very gentle and well suited to treating very young children and babies. It is principally a very sensitive palpatory skill acquired by years of practice with a strong energetic flavour to it. We take dry,congested, shocked tissue back to its fluid, vital, energetic, healthy state.For adults the technique can be wonderfully relaxing and maybe a catalyst for removing subtle blocks in the anatomy that seem to resolve certain conditions.
Read our article on what is Plagiocephaly.
A word about Cranio-sacral therapy. Craniosacral therapists are taught to feel what we refer to as the Involutary mechanism(IVM), a fluctuation in the in the living tissue. They differ from osteopaths as they will not have examined and been tested on their knowledge of the anatomy which is the context on which you hang the IVM. Therefore I find it hard to understand with out knowledge of the normal how the abnormal is recognised and then how one returns the abnormal to a balanced even fluid rythmn? Cranial Osteopathy is a work in progress and we do not as yet understand how it is we get results from the technique. WE are still at a phenomina stage and we use the technique because there are instances of patients resolving problems regularly after having been treated. These issues are ones of behaviour ie baby screams and is unconsolable after treatment baby sleeps and is comfortable. Theories abound and investigation is and needs to be ongoing.
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