When you are always exhausted and hurting all over but your doctor finds nothing wrong with you; you are may be a fibromyalgic. This chronic disorder is characterized by widespread pain in your muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as, fatigue and multiple tender points —places on your body where the slight pressure causes pain.
Such disorder can be treated by medication and therapy. Craniosacral therapy for fibromyalgia is a promising remedy.
Over 92 fibromyalgic patients were treated either with craniosacral therapy or sham treatments for 20 weeks. At the end of treatment, those in therapy showed significantly less pain in most tender points. A year later, those people still showed less tender-point sensitivity.
Craniosacral therapy does not involve deep tissue work so it is just right for sufferers of fibromyalgia. This massage/bodywork technique involves light touch at several points on the body.
Dr. John Upledger, an osteopath, developed craniosacral therapy in the 1970s. This kind of approach was made popular by Dr. William Sutherland, an osteopath in the early 1900′s.
Literally, craniosacral is taken from the term cranio which means head and sacral which refers to the area at the base of the spine; this includes the brain and spinal cord. The brain and the spinal cord are bathed in a craniosacral fluid that has a rhythmic pulse, similar to blood pressure.
Craniosacral therapist feels the pulse and looks for any subtle restrictions in the flow of craniosacral fluid. These restrictions are pointed to be the cause of poor health, especially abnormalities related to the brain, spine, and nervous system.
Craniosacral therapy is able to treat the following:
a. Migraine and headaches
b. Chronic neck and back pain
c. Nervous system disorders
d. Scoliosis
e. Chronic fatigue
f. Stress and stress-related disorders
g. Fibromyalgia and other connective tissue disorders
h. Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome (TMJ)
i. Immune disorders
The procedure for the craniosacral treatment:
1. Lie down on the treatment table.
2. The therapist applies subtle pressure with the hands to the head and the base of the spine.
3. The pressure will relieve the pain and discomfort of fibromyalgia.
Results:
1. This highly effective course of treatment leaves you feeling less pain.
2. You will be more capable of dealing with your tiredness, improves your quality of life and
3. It allows you to sleep better.
Recent clinical researches showed craniosacral therapy that the therapy is widely recognized as a highly effective way to treat baby colic, sleeping problems and feeding issues.
For a 25 week period, a test group was tested and then followed up after 6 months and one year. During the period of treatment and afterwards, the patients reported sleeping better, a much improved quality of life and experiencing considerably less pain.
Even after the end of the treatment period, the patients still felt better and were able to sleep better.
Conclusion of the research was that Craniosacral Therapy is more effective as a complementary form of treatment in addition to other forms of treatment and drugs given to patients.
Craniosacral therapy is a form of manual therapy which releases tensions and strictures in and around the nervous system. The working of the brain nerves and spine are relieved and so enables the remaining body function to work better, deal better with pain, and feel more relaxed. It also allows your body’s own healing mechanisms to help the body heal and mend itself.
Craniosacral therapy facilitates in releasing lesions and strains in the layer of tissue called fascia. Surrounding the muscles and organs, as well as nerves, fascia can become strained and tense due to injury or infection.
This also attributes to the muscle or body pain of Fibromyalgia. This therapy, as part of the treatment, can have the greatest healing and pain relieving effect on sufferers.
Craniosacral therapy is an effective, gentle, and non-invasive method :
a. Of evaluating and enhancing the function of the craniosacral system, the environment in which the brain and spinal cord function.
b. This manual therapy encourages the body’s natural healing mechanisms to improve the operation of the central nervous system.
c. It dissipates the negative effects of stress, and
d. Enhances health, and strengthens resistance to disease.
An additional bonus is that the therapy can be performed at home by the patient using a “still point inducer”, a product which can be purchased commercially or fabricated by tightly stuffing two tennis or racquet balls into a sock. The inducer is placed on the back of the head at the line of the ear, and the patient rests on it for five to 20 minutes.
Craniosacral therapy for fibromyalgia is a good way of alleviating chronic pain.
Sources:
www.WebMD.com
www.MedHelp.com
www.Mayoclinic.com
www.everyday.com
www.RXList.com
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I have tried craniosacral therapy and can vouch for how effective it is with fibromyalgia.