What You Need To Know
Manual Osteopathy is a hands on form of gentle therapy that emphasizes the relationship between structure and function and embraces the philosophy that the body has an innate or natural ability to self-regulate and heal itself.
The key factor that permits this process, is the unimpeded circulation of the body’s fluids such as blood, its drainage through lymph, and the functionaing processes of the nervous system. Osteopathy as a manual therapy helps to facilitate that process by working with the interrelated systems and functions of the body. Through craniosacral therapy and other osteopathic techinques we search for root cause dysfunctions in the arterial, or lympathic venous system, musculoskeletal system, the visceral or nervous system to optomize vital body functions. By normalizing muscular tension, vascular drainage, blood flow, and neural input, these techniques maximizes the body’s intrinsic ability to heal.
Impediments to the flow of fluids in the body may be either structural or non-structural blockages.
Structural or physical impediments include fascial tensions, scar tissue and adhesions that pull on the organs and skeletal frame. Non-structural impediments may include emotional patterns that are responsible for maintaining the body in a certain pattern of adaptation such as impaired breathing patterns or breath holding.
These adaptations are quite often the response to stressful incidents of the past or present, or cumulative such as chronic tension due to stress. Over time, the body gradually loses its ability to efficiently self-regulate and to self-heal.
Manual osteopathy uses techniques such as craniosacral therapy, positional joint release, fascial counterstrain, muscle energy techniques, lymphatic and visceral techniques with the addition of brain-based neuro-corrective techniques (Neurokinetic Therapy and Square 1 System) to help bring balance back to the body’s systems, correct neurologial dysfunctions between the nervous system, the musculoskeletal system and other related systems to guide the body back into that self-regulatory and self-healing mode again.
CranioSacral Therapy
Discover the Healing Power of Gentle Touch
CranioSacral Therapy (CST) was pioneered and developed by osteopathic physician John E. Upledger following extensive scientific studies from 1975 to 1983 at Michigan State University, where he served as a clinical researcher and Professor of Biomechanics.
CST is a gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the functioning of a physiological body system called the craniosacral system - comprised of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. Using a very light touch your practitioner releases restrictions in the fascia and the craniosacral system, which has been shown to improve the functioning of the central nervous system, as well as many other systems of the body, such as digestive, musculoskeletal, respiratory, circulatory, and more. CST has also been shown to help with the physical components related to such somatic conditions as Post Traumatic Stress, depression and anxiety.
By facilitating the body's natural and innate healing processes, CST is increasingly used as a preventive health measure for its ability to bolster resistance to disease, and has been shown to be beneficial for people seeking help with a wide range of healthcare challenges and symptoms including: Migraines, headaches, TMJ dysfunctions, concussions and other brain related injuries, stress and tension related problems and more.
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