What is Cranial Therapy?

Cranial Therapy is a gentle, hands-on approach that releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance.

Using a soft touch, the goal is to release restrictions in soft tissues that surround the central nervous system. Cranial therapy is increasingly used as a preventive health measure for its ability to support the immune system and its effectiveness for a wide range of issues associated with pain and dysfunction.

How Does Cranial Therapy Work?

Few structures have as much influence over the body's ability to function properly as the brain and spinal cord that make up the central nervous system. The central nervous system is heavily influenced by the cranial and sacral system and the membranes and fluid that surround, protect, and nourish the brain and spinal cord.

Every day your body endures stresses and strains that it must work to compensate for. Unfortunately, these changes often cause body tissues to tighten and stress the nervous system. These distortions may cause tension to form around the brain and spinal cord resulting in certain restrictions. This can create a barrier to the healthy performance of the central nervous system, and potentially every other system it interacts with.

Fortunately, such restrictions can be detected and corrected using simple methods of touch. With a light touch, we use our hands to evaluate the body by gently feeling various locations of the body to test for the ease of motion and rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid pulsing around the brain and spinal cord. Soft-touch techniques are then used to release restrictions in any tissues influencing the nervous system.

By normalizing the environment around the brain and spinal cord and enhancing the body's ability to self-correct, Cranial Therapy is able to alleviate a wide variety of dysfunctions - From chronic pain and sports injuries to more severe neurological impairments that require a soft touch and gentle, non-force type of treatment.