Research, Articles & Case Studies

Facia is made up of sheets of connective tissue below the skin. These tissues attach, stabilize, impart strength, maintain vessels patency, and hold vital organs and separate muscles. The word Fascia was originally used by surgeons to describe the soft tissue encasing the body, organs and bones. Fascia forms as pearly white fibrous tissue , just like the light tissue that is seen when you take the skin off of a chicken.

Upledger Institute International Case Study

CranioSacral Therapy - Glial Work Helps Concussion Recovery

Can an Osteopathic treatment help the muscles in the hand caused by an overload of the extensor muscles usually in the dominant hand. Osteopathic treatment was used exclusively manually, with parieral, visceral, and cranioSacral therapy individually chosen for each patient. Four common test were used to see if a difference was made in each patient.

They were not able to come to a conclusion to successfully treat this.

Pain management remains a critical issue for hospitals, they are trying to integrate Massage Therapy as a part of the team management for patient care. The study was conducted on patients from medical, surgery and obstetrics departments. Each session was 30 minutes. They were able to see the difference in the pain levels from 0 to 10 before and then after the therapy. Before the massage they recorded the pain levels most patients were around 5.18, after their massage, their levels went down to 2.33 a significant difference.

Low back pain is one of those symptoms that can last from 4 weeks, subacute usually last 4-12 weeks. Chronic low back pain last more than 12 weeks. There are many different therapies which usually starts out with massage therapies exercises, yoga etc. If the pain becomes chronic the patient may have to go to more options to the failed treatments.  

This case report is about Prader-Willi syndrome, there are 1 in 8000 to 1 in 25,000 births in the United States. This syndrome has many challenges for a child born with this defect. They have many issue with feeding , developmental delays, behavioral problems, prone to scoliosis with other issues. They decided to do Chiropractic adjustments and CranioSacral therapy with other therapies. They noticed much improvement in her treatment plan of twice weekly. Overall she had improved her abilities to sleep better, control anxiety and help her to focus.

This report shows improvements and progression was a success due to multiple therapies. 

CST- CranioSacral Therapy is a light touch manual therapy that works with the body's self-correcting mechanism to affect multiple structual and physiological systems in attaining greater health and well being. As the name implies, it involves mobilizing restrictions within the cranium and the sacrum.It really is a whole body approach. It is practiced by various healthcare professional who have a license to touch.

This RCT (Random Controlled Trials) Studies Review is documenting both the safety and therapeutic effect of Upledger CranioSacral Therapy (CST), and leads the way to larger studies in different health care conditions so often incorporating CST as a complementary treatment.