Role of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in Pain Relief
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a non-invasive, gentle, hands-on therapy effective for relieving your pain. It helps in assisting your body's natural ability to heal and create mobility and ease in places that suffer from injury. The therapist uses their hands to release tensions deep in the body. BST has its roots in osteopathy, in which manual techniques strengthen and manipulate the musculoskeletal framework. The therapy is gaining popularity and recognition in many parts of the world for its therapeutic effects. Craniosacral therapy is also a preventative therapy that increases the body's resistance to many medical conditions.
How Does Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Work?
The craniosacral system dramatically influences the central nervous system. Craniosacral therapists believe that illness is caused in part by restrictions in our cerebrospinal fluid. Trauma can lodge in our bodies as well as our minds, which lead to tightening and compression in the craniosacral system. This tightening can be due to any past emotional or physical trauma. This trauma's physiological effects can show up in your body in as pain, spasm, stress, fatigue, or many other symptoms. The therapist uses their hands to feel slight differences in the motion of fluid and gently manipulate the craniosacral system's rhythms to release the held trauma. Biodynamic craniosacral therapy activates the body's natural healing capacity.
How does Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Help in Relieving Pain?
Pain can be debilitating, whether it is acute or chronic. Everyone wants to get relief from pain as soon as possible. People use a lot of medications, but these only provide temporary relief. Biodynamic craniosacral therapy doesn't just give you relief from your symptoms but goes to the heart of the problem.
Pain, due to any reason, causes tension and stress in the body systems. When the body is stressed, it leads to muscle tension, which causes compression of blood vessels and nerves. This compression of vessels leads to a reduced blood supply. The decreased blood supply will eventually lead to an impaired amount of nutrients and waste removal from the affected area. The pain generally causes a state of stress in the body, which activates the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight part of the central nervous system). Biodynamic craniosacral therapy helps relieve pain by down-regulating the sympathetic nervous system and allowing the parasympathetic nervous system to come online. It will cause the decompression of muscles, dilates blood vessels increasing the blood flow to those previously restricted parts of our body. The therapy allows the body to relax as the blockage and compressions are relieved.
Various studies have also proven the positive impact of biodynamic craniosacral therapy in managing chronic pain conditions like fibromyalgia, migraine, chronic neck, and back pain. Patients also reported a reduced need for pain medication after treatment. Besides relieving pain, it also induces deep relaxation, reduced stress, enhanced mood, reduced muscle tension, and improved pain tolerance. Biodynamic craniosacral therapy is one of the safest and most effective pain management techniques.