Cranial Osteopathy
Cranial Osteopathy is a gentle and effective treatment which addresses symptoms and the underlying causes, which David has undergone considerable post graduate training to provide. These may include back and neck pain; joint pain and sports injuries; headaches, migraines and sinus problems; stress; recurrent infection; period pain; digestive difficulties. Treatment may also benefit general health and well being.
In babies and children many problems such as crying, colic, sleeping and feeding difficulties may be helped. Cranial Osteopathy can be used for all ages (from new-born babies to the oldest of OAPs) and all states of health.
The skull is made up of 26 bones that are joined in such a way that during the rhythmical cycle of involuntary motion, the skull actually changes shape. Physical training, illness and stress can block or disrupt this movement, preventing an optimum state of health.
The Biodynamic Approach
Biodynamic Cranial or Biodynamic Osteopathy is a philosophy and treatment modality building on the work and experience of Dr. Sutherland, the man who structured Cranial Osteopathy into a system. It is the work of Dr. James Jealous, a teacher and clinician who emphasises the importance of the body in its environment, the body as part of the natural world.
Biodynamics is based in Embryology (the study of the formation and growth of the body in utero), which is a vitalistic / biological example of forces at work guiding formation, forces which are guiding gene expression and replication in the foetus. These forces can be compared to the chef creating the meal, without him there are only the raw ingredients. (Dr. E Bechlschmitt).
These forces that are guiding embryogenesis are the forces that become, in the adult, the agents of healing and health, according to Dr. Jealous. The rhythms Osteopaths are feeling are expressions of this primal force, which Dr. Sutherland named Primary Respiration, the breathing or rhythmic movement of the body which is there before we take our first (thoracic) breath, the rhythm of life that underlies all movement in the body.
The treatment is based on harmonising with these integral forces and helping them express more fully, delivering a greater expression of health.
