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My views on craniosacral therapy are complicated. On one hand it seems crazy, and most of it has to be bunk. On the other, I credit the treatment with curing my
by foxbarrington 11y ago
My views on craniosacral therapy are complicated. On one hand it seems crazy, and most of it has to be bunk. On the other, I credit the treatment with curing my pulsatile tinnitus.
An interesting note is that the practicioner I saw also had low regard for the field as a whole, and I don't think she would give a blanket recommendation for treatment.
The practicioner I saw had good knowledge of anatomy and was not into the mystical/rhythm side of things. Most of her work was on muscles and getting them to loosen up.
- cbd1984 11y agoSounds like a good massage therapist could have done the same thing without the patina of bullshit. The essence of craniosacral therapy is moving the bones in your cranium. That's the top part of the skull which protects the brain. In adults, those bones are fused, and no longer move; they're still distinct pieces, but the only time you're going to get any flexion up there is if your skull has been fractured. So any massaging of that region isn't being done to move the bones, it's being done (whether the practitioner knows it or not) entirely for the benefit of the muscles, which is what helped you.