Cranial Osteopathy

Cranial osteopathy is a gentle, safe and effective approach to massage treatment of a wide range of problems in the whole body. The technique is most commonly known to be used for babies and small children, however Osteopaths can use it for any patient.

Cranial osteopathy is not different to osteopathy. It is the name given to a subtle and refined therapy approach to osteopathy that follows all the principles of osteopathy, and it is used throughout the body not just in the head. The name ‘cranial osteopathy’ simply refers to the fact that it includes the structures inside the head. It can also be called cranial sacral osteopathy or cranial sacral therapy. Cranial osteopaths use a highly developed sense of touch to feel subtle changes of tension and tissue quality in the living anatomy of the whole body, and to diagnose areas osteopath to feel things on a deeper level than purely muscles and joints.

Using ‘cranial’ palpation Osteopaths are often drawn to areas in the body that have been affected by past events, such as old accidents and injuries. The body may have learned to compensate for a traumatic event or injury and the patient may be unaware that there is anything wrong, but the effects may still be present and relevant to the patient’s current symptoms./

It also offers a chance to access the emotional holding patterns of people; the body is like a giant tape recorder, recording the energy of what events have occured to that patient and how they have EMOTIONALLY RESPONDED to those events. Whatever has not been released is still there i.e. emotions can be part of the restriction. And this is true whether a cranial osteopath is palpating a two week old baby or an 40 year old working, tired, stressed Mother! Cranial Osteopaths work to activate the innate ability of the body to heal itself, and by offering gentle and specific support where it is needed to bring the tissues into a state of balance and release, to restore it to health.

The scope of what cranial osteopathy can treat is huge as it is so gentle:

Babies	Growing Child	Adults
Collic Issues	Pain in the Body	Pain (Headaches, Back and Neck
Reflux	Headaches	Recurrent Stresses or Strains
Unhappy Distressed Babies	Development of the Spine	Recurrent Ill health
Flat Heads	Recovery From Falls	Emotional Tension
Torticolois	Ear infection and Sinus Issues	Pregnancy and Post Natal Pain
Only looking one away	Recurrent Illness	Last Resort issues
Issues with feeding	Behavioural Problems	Post Surgical Pain and Tensio
	Autism Cerebral Palsy Epilepsy Dental Development	Post Accident Or Trauma