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Enjoy this in-depth article about synergy between the heart-brain-gut axis, the gut-brain axis, the vagus nerve, emotions, and optimal health. 

The quality of our emotional balance and the regulating power of the ventral vagus nerve are two things that go hand-in-hand. The pernicious effects of stress on the beneficial action of the vagus nerve should not be overlooked, and conversely how a serene, joyful, and empathetic emotional state is a strong factor for creating optimal health. Manual therapy means to help strengthen the functioning of the vagus nerve are important, as are ways to manage and decrease stress to help balance the emotions.

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CranioSacral Therapy-Occipital Migraine

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CranioSacral Therapy – Neck Pain

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CranioSacral Therapy and Anxiety

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CranioSacral Therapy – Childhood Apraxia and Sensory Processing Integration Disorder

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a deformity that affects the spine in three dimensions. Even though AIS patients are usually asymptomatic, AIS negatively impacts them, affecting their quality of life and restricting their social life. There are many treatment options but no gold standard. Visceral manipulation (VM) is widely used in  osteopathic practice for the treatment of several conditions, but it is little known among the medical community. To the best of our knowledge, there are no scientific studies reporting VM as a treatment alternative for AIS.

Case Presentation: The case was a 14-year-old girl with AIS (baseline Cobbangle of 38.9° in the lumbar spineand 32.3° in the thoracic spine). Although the patient had no physical symptoms, she was recommended for surgery to correct thedeformity. The osteopathic assessment indicated that the uterus and pericardium where the main  anatomical structurescreating tension. Two VM sessions were conducted with a month-and-a-half interval  between sessions. The follow-up X-ray revealed a Cobb angle of 32.1° in the lumbar curvature and 34.3° in the thoracic curvature. The results were perceived as an improvement by the patient and her parents. No adverse  events or complications were reported. Discussion: After two session of visceral osteopathic treatment, this document reports a 6.8° Cobb angle reduction of the primary curve in a patient with AIS, with the thoracic curvature becoming the major curve.

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CranioSacral Therapy – Hirschsprung’s Disease

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CranioSacral Therapy – Cervical Dystonia

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CranioSacral Therapy – Autism

A decade ago, researchers in the lab of Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.Sc., answered a basic question of biology that up to that point had eluded scientists: how is waste removed from the brain? The discovery of what is now known as the glymphatic system and subsequent research have transformed the way we study a range of neurological disorders andcritical brain functions.