Your Inner Physician and You: Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release
by John E. Upledger
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Author: John E. UpledgerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-04
ISBN: 1556432461
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
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Book Review: The results speak for themselves
Summary: 4 Stars
I've been a pianist for 30+ years (grandstudent of Claude Debussy); I've also spent 16 years in IT doing software development and technical training. My father is a retired physicist with a PhD from Cornell. So I have a fairly strong and broad background both in left and right brained endeavors. I admit I found parts of this book to be out there, but from my personal experiences I've learned you can't discount the results, and the cases studies you read in Inner Physician pretty much mirror my personal experiences with craniosacral. I just finished taking the Upledger CST 1 course, and none of the roughly 50 students in my class could dispute what we saw and experienced, watching other students and gauging our own health barometers. Some examples from before taking the class:
1. Meeting an autistic patient of a craniosacral therapist and not even realizing he was autistic because he was friendly and outgoing from the time I walked into the office. He once told my therapist he wouldn't be who he is today without her. This made me seriously question the definition of autism, and whether or not he really was autistic. But before craniosacral therapy, you had to practically hit him over the head with a 2x4 to get his attention.
2. My therapist held a sharecare weekend class, but during one of those days a child came in with an emergency - he'd been climbing and had fallen 5 feet on his head. We interrupted the class and before the therapist started working on him, she said: here, feel the back of his head. It felt flat! It was horrible! After working on him for about 10-15 minutes, she said here, feel this again. The back of his head was perfectly round, and smooth again.
One CST 1 experience:
An older student had fallen and broken her arm years ago. She had a plate holding her radius and ulna together, screwed through those bones. For whatever strange reason, it resulted in frozen shoulder and she couldn't raise her hand behind her, above her waist. The other hand went halfway up her back. After the instructor worked on her for awhile, she was able raise the hand almost as high as her good hand.
The next day, she gave a follow up. She still had good mobility, but another curious thing had happened. In the area where the plate was, she'd had a bruise (going on 10 years since the surgery). Other students had noticed it too, and the bruise was gone.
I myself did a test - I've been in pretty good shape with a multitude of modalities used together - chiropractic, rolfing, cranio work, etc. I stopped all of that months before the class to do a test; I'd seen benefits but wasn't sure what modalities were responsible for what improvements so I wanted to isolate craniosacral alone to gauge the results. I was in awful shape by the time I walked in that class - headache on the left side, left back pain, left side sciatica. I almost couldn't turn my head, probably down to 1/4 range of motion on the bad side. The instructor only worked on me one time for a demo; the rest of the time students worked on me and vice versa. After 4 days I was 90-95% better (it fluctuates - an old pain will come and go, a different one will come and go). I admit the results aren't staying 100% because I don't have a great mattress. But hey, we were students who'd done cranio work for 4 days. What do you expect? :)
And as to the craniosacral rhythm: the first day, 75% of our class felt something (me included, I couldn't tell what, but I felt something). By the next day, the whole class felt the rhythms and they got stronger as time passed, probably because the instructor and assistants worked on students who were in pretty bad shape. I realize in retrospect you won't feel a strong rhythm when there is fairly significant dysfunction. By the third day, we were practicing putting each other into stillpoint and waiting for the rhythm to kick back in. My partner and I felt me go into stillpoint, and we waited for awhile and suddenly my system gave a huge UMPH!!! As if to say: enough!! Let me go!! And we both yelped. We felt the same when I put her into stillpoint. So the comments about different practitioners feeling different things - when you have strong healthy craniosacral systems, that's not true, because we students were sync'ed up by day three. I CAN see that if you're trying to evaluate a dysfunctional craniosacral system, practitioners will say different things, but that's going to be based on their skill level. A newbie just won't be able to assess the amplitude and rate of the rhythm the way an experienced practitioner can. I certainly can't unless it's obvious, right now.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. If I kept going this entry would be way too long. Everyone is entitled to their opinion which will be based on their beliefs, background, experiences, etc. I can't deny the results I've seen.
So why four stars? I guess that's the left brained part of me complaining about the out there parts. It can't get over thinking that someday traditional medical research and craniosacral research will merge, and we'll have a more complete picture - one that is more balanced, one that firmly bridges the left and right brained worlds.
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Summary of Your Inner Physician and You: Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release
This lively book describes the discovery and therapeutic value of the craniosacral system in easy, understandable terms healthcare professionals and laypeople alike can understand. Dr. Upledger's colorful case histories explain the path that led to his discovery of this exciting medical modality. The book contains a play-by-play account of the development of CranioSacral Therapy, SomatoEmotional Release, and other concepts and techniques. It's recommended reading for therapists, patients, caregivers, and anyone interested in understanding how therapy performed on the craniosacral system can improve the quality of life.Alternative Medicine Books
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