Research, Articles & Case Studies

Upledger Institute International Case Study

CranioSacral Therapy - Conception, Pregnancy and Birth

This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 58 infants, aged 0-84 days, diagnosed with infantile colic. The babies received a 30-40 minute CST session once a week (experimental group) or no treatment (control group). Craniosacral therapy appears to be effective and safe for infantile colic by reducing the number of crying hours, the colic severity and increasing the total hours of sleep. 

•CST helps in reducing crying hours and colic severity in infantile colic.

•CST helps to increase the sleep hours in infants dealing with infantile colic

Upledger Institute International Case Study

CranioSacral Therapy - Head Injury

In this story, she tells how CranioSacral Therapy helped improve her sons far-sightedness

The Mother of 3 was prompted to seek help for Hart's vision problems when she noticed he wasn't seeing up close. He wasn't meeting certain milestones.

After speaking to her pediatrician, she was recommended to visit a pediatric ophthalmologist. But before the appt. Dr. MCNamara told her about CranioSacral Therapy which was meant to loosen the muscles that were making his eyes cross-eyed and were making it hard for him to see up close.

Present study was undertaken to add on to available treatment methods for cervical spondylosis and to find out the effectiveness of Craniosacral therapy (CST) for treating cervical spondylosis. Conclusion: Craniosacral therapy (CST) is an effective treatment and can be used for treating patients with cervical spondylosis. Read full article attached.

Upledger Insitute International Case Study

CranioSacral Therapy - Chronic Insomnia

Avadhan Larson offers somatic experiencing, which can potentially help people heal from trauma. The healing modality looks like talk therapy from the outside, but doesn't ask the client to relive the traumatic experience repeatedly.

So what does a session look like? To an outside observer, it would look a lot like talk therapy, Larson said, with the practitioner and patient sitting and quietly talking.But it’s not. Talk therapy can only help resolve trauma to a point, and it might even worsen it, as talking about and reliving the trauma can reinforce its neural pathways in the brain, making the memory stronger.

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Current theories suggest that waste solutes are cleared from the brain via the CSF flow, diven by pressure pulsations of possibly both cardiac and respiratory origin. In this study, we explored the importance of respiratory versus cardiac pressure gradients for CSF flow within one of the main conduits of the brain, the cerebral aqueduct. 

Pressure gradients underlying CSF flow in the cerebral aqueduct are dominated by cardiac pulsations, but induce CSF flow volumes dominated by respiration.  

This research article discusses current theories that waste solutes are cleared from the brain via cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow. 

In this study, they explored the importance of respiratory versus cardiac pressure gradients for CSF flow within one of the main conduits of the brain, the cerebral aqueduct.