Looking for a personal testimonial regarding craniosacral therapy.
My search results have me a bit stymied, I don’t seem to really understand what takes place during the treatment.
My sister is treating her PTSD (time spent in El Salvador as a pastor, with a gun frequently pointed at her, has surfaced 15 years later) with homeopathic treatments, including craniosacral therapy. She doesn’t want to talk about it, and I am just trying to understand how it works. I hope it works, anyway. She is really suffering now with anxiety and rage. She is unable to keep working (she did leave the church and became a therapist), due to triggering of her own symptoms through listening to others.
Any info, pro or con, will be greatly appreciated.
Hi, Beck,
Like homeopathy, craniosacral therapy is a total crock.
You can read more about it on www.quackwatch.com
While I happen to be in complete agreement with this particular statement, I wish Dopers would cast a critical eye towards this site, which is frequently referenced here. This guy (Stephen Barrett, MD) is as agenda-driven as the pushers of bogus therapies he criticizes. I have watched him back off on one therapy in particular, that helped me regain a normal life (Glucosamine for osteoarthritis), from classifying it a completely bogus thing to a damning-with-faint-praise report currently on his site. It will be interesting to see what happens with Dr. Atkins’ bio he is updating. Of course, he was a certified quack on the site a while ago.
This site is NOT an unbiased review of questionable therapies, although many of them are indeed completely bogus. It is driven by a hatred he clearly has for anything not taught in medical school. The title of his site clearly reinforces that.
The opposite of proven is not quackery.
Lamar, I also do not agree with everything Barrett says and agree that he has an agenda almost as much as the quacks do. You certainly do need to maintain a critical eye with that site, and thank you for the adding that disclaimer. I seem to remember some good sources of info. re. craniosacral therapy there, though. I had a therapist recommend it for my son and did a lot of investigation - all of which convinced me it’s bogus.
Y’know, I’m hoping I wasn’t the only one who opened this thread expecting a joke about treatment for people with their heads up their asses.
(I’d never heard of craniosacral therapy, I thought it was a total spoof. Learn something new every day.)
Hey, Jill and others - thanks for the input.
You be trying to reason with hurricane season yet, down there?
We a too far south fi hurricane.
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Paradise and all convincing me]]
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Okay, back to fake brain therapies.
Jill
That’s called Rectocranial Inversion.
In my quest to try new things I tries craniosacral therapy not knowing what it was. What it is is a waste of time and money. Next time I might do some research before I try something new.