Effective treatment for babies and infants with colic, birth trauma, breastfeeding difficulties and more...

Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a comprehensive manual therapy. Its slow paced, gentle approach is used to create a safe environment to evaluate and re-harmonize imbalances.

Using Craniosacral Therapy (CST), Brenda Pulvermacher is able to tap into our original blue-print for health that began manifesting at conception and is with us all our life. It is especially effective in helping with the common difficulties of the newborn following caesarean birth or forceps and vacuum delivery.

In a fascinating study conducted in the early 1970’s, Dr. Viola Frymann, an American osteopath noted that ten percent of the twelve hundred infants she examined had visible trauma to the head from in utero and birth trauma. She also found that membranous restrictions, easily palpated by an experienced cranial therapist, were detected in another seventy-eight percent. Frymann found that common problems of infancy, such as difficulty sucking, vomiting, colic, nervous tension and irregular respiration, were frequently overcome as soon as the strains are corrected. The study also noted that, when the restrictions remained untreated, there was a much higher than average incidence of learning and behavioral problems. In another study involving one hundred students with learning and behavioral difficulties, seventy-nine who had been born after a long or difficult labour had one, or more, of the common problems of infancy.

Sometimes even a normal birth may result in strains of the bones that form the skull. Hyperextension of the baby’s head as it emerges from birth canal can cause compression of the cranial base and the opening through which the jugular vein and the vagus nerve exit the cranium, just behind the bottom of the ear. The vagus nerve is responsible for regulation of the digestive system; the hypoglossal nerve helps coordinate the breath-suck swallow reflex. Restriction here can cause difficulty in sucking, irritability and colic.

Restrictions and strains may also cause:

• food allergies

• constipation

• hyperactivity disorder

• learning challenges

• ear infections

• failure to thrive

• developmental delays

They may progress to common problems of adulthood: migraine headaches, neck and back pain, chronic fatigue, depression, anxiety, chronic jaw pain, post-traumatic stress disorders and so on.

Often all that is needed to help the infant activate a healing process is the slow gentle loving touch of  the caregiver understanding the basic need for the self attachment sequence and skin to skin contact. Our bodies have an amazing capacity to heal if they are given an environment of complete trust and safety. In addition timely Craniosacral Therapy  promotes overall better health, increased resistance to disease and   may alleviate many troublesome medical  and neonatal conditions.