Craniosacral Therapy, A Powerful But Gentle Way To Of Heal Pain And Stress

CST or CranioSacral Therapy is a powerful but gentle style of healing. Your craniosacral system is a protective and deep layer of your body, and is where the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the spinal cord and brain as well as the structures or membrane that protect your central nervous system resides.

When you’re in pain or feeling overwhelmed or stressed, or simply feels like the “on” switch has been flipped on for too long, craniosacral therapy can help “reboot” your body and help you to relax and slow down. This restful experience is ideal for sorting your backlogged material, mostly a wide range of stressors, headaches, and pain signals. The therapy is so soothing and relaxing that most people feel as if they are floating on air or fall asleep during the session.

What Other Things Can CranioSacral Therapy Do?

 Your body has to compensate when it has to deal with trauma and stress. This generates restrictions and tension across the body affecting the tissues that envelop the spine and brain. These conditions can cause your body systems, especially your central nervous system, to not perform at peak efficiency; by working gently with this system, that restriction and tension can be assuaged, giving your body a chance to experience ease and a new sense of balance.

What Happens During a CranioSacral Therapy Session?

You will lie on a massage table fully clothed during treatment, which involves gentle touch to assess and release tissues all the way from the bottom of the spine to the structures and sutures of your cranium. Your body’s rhythm, like working with a gentle tide or a wave form, will be treated to attain the profoundly relaxing response many people experience. Lots of people view CranioSacral therapy as a type of “head massage;” actually, the treatment can be used to work on any part of the body.

What are the Uses of CranioSacral Therapy?

 CranioSacral is good for eliminating mental and physical stress habits. This means issues such as TMJ,

scoliosis, immune problems, headaches, fibromyalgia, emotional problems including anxiety and depression, digestive disorders, chronic pain including back and neck pain, and chronic fatigue respond well to this therapy.

CST works well in treating complex anddiseases that cannot be resolved by other therapies. Most people who visit a CranioSacral therapist have tried several forms of treatment just to relieve their pain and stress with little or no results. With just a few treatment sessions of CST, they are brought closer to balance and the pain in the body that have persisted for years are finally cured.

Ni Nan Gilbert is a licensed acupuncturist in Bellmore, NY with certification in Chinese Herbology and over 16 years experience in traditional Chinese medicine.