Curvature of the spine can start at any age with different treatment regimes implemented depending on your age and severity of deformation. In most cases a brace and/or surgery will be considered. CranioSacral therapy can be used as a complementary form of treatment to enhance and speed up the effects of a brace, or even to treat the condition without medical intervention. If surgery is being considered then cranial work can have a very positive effect to help prepare your body, resulting in less post operative pain, quicker recovery, less need for pain killing drugs and greater mobility afterwards.

Spinal curvatures can be caused by the position you were lying in the womb which can induce a twist into the spine. ( imagine the effects of sitting or lying in a cramped fetal position for more than an hour it would probably give you a back ache. Now think what could happen to your back if you were kept like that for two months!! If for some reason this strain pattern even slightly effects your young growing body, and continues to slightly deform the shape of your spine, it is quite easy to understand how the position that you were in, in the womb can cause scoliosis many years later.) CranioSacral therapy techniques gently and lightly release and ‘unwind’ these twists which have developed over years and allow the back to grow and maintain a straight back.

Curvatures can develop due to other weaknesses in the back, legs, neck, shoulders or muscles. These can add pressure into the spinal column and thus lead to scoliosis or other forms of spinal deformity such as lordosis or kyphosis.

Healing Broken Bones

Are you are sitting at home with your hand or leg in a cast due to a broken bone that is painful and slow to heal? Craniosacral therapy is able to enhance the body’s healing and rebuilding abilities. By freeing up restrictions in the body, craniosacral therapy enables the cells that build the new bone tissue and blood vessels to move and function better. It also helps your body overcome the pain and trauma caused by the break, allowing you to continue your life with less or no pain.

Arthritis

One of the most common forms of modern medical conditions in this day and age is arthritis. If you are one of those people suffering from joint pain Craniosacral therapy should be a serious option. The light pressure techniques help to relieve the pain of arthritis and encourage the body’s ability to re-grow warn out cartilage. For rheumatoid arthritis the cranial work will enable to body to remove the chemicals from the joints which cause pain.

Surgery

One of the miracles of CranioSacral therapy is its effectiveness at reducing physical pain without the need to sedatives. A course of treatment before and after surgery can reduce the amount of pain killing drugs administered by doctors to almost none, reduce the pain and discomfort felt after the surgery and allow for a faster and speedy recovery. Treatment can be performed whilst bandages are still on the patient, the light pressures will not in anyway affect the wound or the stitches, or general treatment on other parts of your body can also achieve positive healing results.