An article penned by Tami Goldstein, author of Coming Through The Fog, is featured as part of the online exclusives that accompany Massage Magazine Issue 258.
Click on the image below to view the article as it appeared in the magazine, or read the article on the Massage Magazine website …
In this video, Emily Francis, massage therapist, author and mother of a child who was on the Autism Spectrum, expresses her gratitude for Upledger CST.
I hope you will take a few minutes to watch this, as it certainly will fill your heart with happiness and your eyes with tears.
This video contains Dr. John E. Upledger testifying before Congress about autism, CST and his comments linking vaccines to autism.
Witnesses testified about a theory that routine vaccinations may cause autism in a growing number of children. Parents spoke about their experiences with their own autistic children. Medical experts and researchers then testified about the scientific evidence of a link between vaccines and autism, often disagreeing on whether a causal link existed
This is a very important study about the use of CranioSacral therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorders! Have you tried CranioSacral Therapy?
From the study’s extract:
The objectives of this preliminary study were to explore: the use of CranioSacral Therapy for persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder, the demographics of participants, and the retrospective interpretation of reported changes related to the intervention. Participants included therapists, parents, and clients.
Read the full study at the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies ….
Cerebrospinal fluid production, flow into and out of the brain and spinal cord, and reabsorption are shown and described in this video:
From ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:
This paper is a review of clinical experiences providing developmental therapy services for three boys diagnosed with paediatric neurotransmitter disease.
The clinical presentation of paediatric neurotransmitter diseases might parallel other diagnostic characteristics seen in a typical paediatric therapy clinic (i.e. hypotonia, motor and cognitive delays, coordination, expressive speech, and ocular motor difficulties.) From the clinical perspective of the author, sensory integrative function is but one aspect of a thorough evaluation and treatment plan for all patients.
The manifestations of sensory integration dysfunction (SID), also known as sensory processing dysfunction (SPD), can occur alone or be concurrent with a variety of known medical, behavioural and neurological diagnoses. These manifestations of SPD can include, but are not limited to: hypotonia, hyperactivity, irritability, distractibility, attention difficulties, learning difficulties, clumsiness and incoordination, instability, poor motor skills, social-emotional difficulties, and behavioural problems.
This paper summarizes the theory and practice applications of sensory integration. The author discusses clinical experiences providing occupational therapy services utilizing sensory integration methods and strategies with clients who were eventually diagnosed with SSADH deficiency.
This is a very interesting article … Makes ya go hmmmm….
We have anatomical terms that help give credibility but there’s a lot that can’t be explained in a satisfactory way to people who want hard science. Let’s face it, there’s a fair bit of Mystery that informs our work no matter how much we try to cloak it in anatomy and physiology.
It doesn’t mean craniosacral isn’t effective. It doesn’t mean we don’t get results. Perhaps it means we’ve been too busy actually doing the work to take the time to figure out the why behind it.
From Massage Magazine:
A primary focus of CranioSacral Therapy is to gently lessen the body’s connective tissue strain and decrease meningeal stress. CranioSacral Therapy is based partly on the theory that certain light-touch manual techniques can help relieve cell stress and improve health by enhancing the form and balance of the connective tissue matrix, in particular connective tissue layers surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
Do you or anyone you know have trouble sleeping? If so, pass along this great article from Spirituality & Health:
Craniosacral therapy is known to treat a myriad of problems including sleep disturbances. Honolulu based craniosacral therapist Valerie Collins explains that, “the light-touch approach of craniosacral therapy helps to calm the body by enabling the client to enter into a state of deep relaxation, similar to meditation.” But it doesn’t just help induce relaxation and improve sleep; it’s touted as healing everything from headaches to learning disabilities.
Read the full article at Spirituality & Health …
