Where do problems that respond well to CranioSacral Therapy treament originate?  How can infants and  children have physical restrictions?

A few entries in our blog have spoken of birth injuries.  Being born is not always easy.  Everyone has heard a horror story or two about the birth process.  The infant can be affected by maternal medications, a long slow birth, a fast, explosive birth, cesarean section surgery, difficult presentations.  Being born has been referred to your first CranioSacral Therapy treatment and I have also heard it referred to your first chiropractic treatment.  The movement through the birth canal with its squeezing, moving, twisting, pressing, and final emerging puts the whole infant’s body through a rigorous treatment from head to toe.  If that process is interrupted or intruded upon in any way the infant can be left with physical trauma that cannot be seen but can affect the development of the infant and young child.

CranioSacral Therapy can help both the well baby with minor complaints around feeding, movement, or development as well as those infants with more troublesome difficulties around development of  motor skills, feeding and sleep.

As the child grows physical injuries can be encountered as they make their way up and into sitting, cruising and walking.  All children experience their share of bumps and falls, some more serious than others.  Preverbal children may cry and move on with problems arising at a later time, apparently unrelated to the origininal fall.

As the child becomes more aware of their surroundings they begin to immitate the adults in their lives.  This can include imitating postures, habits, ways of moving and walking and being in the world.  Have you ever seen a father and son who look alike, speak alike, stand alike and move alike?

On and into school.  Long hours at a desk, carrying heavy backpacks, sports, extracurricular activities, computer use, slouching in front of the TV……… habits develop and carry forward.  Add in mild traumas we all experience: invasive dentistry, braces, surgeries, illnesses, stress and emotional trials.  Children have lots of reasons to have restrictions in their bodies.

Physical restricitions respond particularly well to CranioSacral Therapy as it gently releases and balances soft tissues, cranial bones and spinal column restrictions releasing strain on nerves, blood vessels and the lymph system.

Copyright 2008  Brenda Rosenberg CST