Resources for self-help

A listing of useful resources for use at home

1. Notes for Clients


• Brief notes for new clients - this mainly gives details of the basis on which I run treatment sessions - however, please note that these guidelines are meant to be very general. I treat such a wide range of cases and conditions that they will not wholly apply to all cases. If in doubt about anything, please ask during a treatment session or phone 01603 665173.
• How to book appointments, cancellations and treatment fees
• What is CST? - a brief description from a biomechanical perspective
• A few nores on th euse of CST to treat scar tissue
• CST, TMJ Syndrome and Orthodontics - a brief leaflet describing how CST can help
• More information on TMJ Syndrome and CST
• CST is widely used to assist colicky and distressed babies. This leaflet describes how CST is used to treat babies.
• CST is also useful for treating PTSD and for "personal development" as an adjunct to psychotherapy. see this info sheet...
or as an alternative approach through the body instead of talking!
2. Stillpoint Inducers
   
   • Smile Inducer - this applies pressure to two points on the back of the head, and is useful for a wide range of problems, including pain, spinal problems (mainly upper spine, but it has also helped some cases of sciatica and lumbar pain), jet lag and problems with lymphatic action or body fluid distribution.
   • Sacrowedgy - is designed to release the sacrum, and so may be useful for any lower back problem or sciatica, and (surprisingly enough) also can help cases of sinusitis
3. meditations, visualisations and simple exercises
   All information here is freely available for anyone to use. Please note that support, advice or clarification of these can only be provided to clients.
   • Body integration exercise : (PDF, 91Kb) An affirmation/meditation process to help integrate the body-mind, and increase body awareness. This is particularly for serious illness, but can be used - and is useful - for anyone
   • TMJ stabilisation techniques (PDF, 35Kb) : three simple exercises which take just a few minutes every day, and which might assist in reducing the symptoms of Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome. Please note that these do not replace treatment, and if they are effective in reducing symptoms, then that is a VERY good indication that treatment is both necessary and potentially highly beneficial. You can get more information on TMJ syndrome from the Cranio Group. Also see the leaflet on CST, TMJ Syndrome and Orthodontics
   • Breathing Exercise based on Leon Chaitow's work
   • Secret Garden - personal development workshops
   • John Levine - Alphamusic for balancing and calming the mind
4. Shopping page...
   
   
   • "Your Inner Physician and You" by Dr John Upledger - the founder of CST. This is a very easy and fascinating read, accessible to anyone, with no medical background required. Other easy to read books are "Craniosacral Therapy - touchstone for health", again by John Upledger, and Michael Kern's "Wisdom of the Body"
5. Miscellaneous and technical stuff
   
   • SBS Lesions Revisited, Final version, Published JBMT July 2005 (PDF, 811Kb) A re-hash of the SBS theory of cranial bone motion - your constructive comments very welcome.
   • SBS Lesions Revisited (Simplified) (PDF, 336Kb) as above, but I have spelt it out very simply, with less cranial bone jargon. This is the best version to start with.
   • The Five Senses - a journey through the senses (HTML document)
   • Ramblings about subjects more or less vaguely related to CST (PDF, about 400kB and growing)
   • Regulatory Issues - a personal view of the future of complementary Therapies in the UK
   - now almost out of date but not quite. The Government appears to be putting into place the legislative and regulatory framework to privatise at least part of the NHS - there is really no other way of accounting for the type of regulations being implemented. Foundation for Integrated Health is supposed to be the more user-friendly complementary therapy version of the Health professions Council (HPC), but so far the structure it offers appears to offer no safeguards that the ethos of complementary therapy will in any way be respected. Instead, we seem to be sliding slowly towards a scientific-secular society in which scientific evidence is seen as the only valid measure of usefulness. Comments on this are being made through Denis Postle's website. Other articles saying similar things (how regulation of the kind being implemented supports the wrong kind of "professionalism" by MH Parker, Brian Hampton. The very good case FOR regulation (though maybe not the type we seem to be getting) is given at the BMJ. All this is being done supposedly in the interests of public safety. but as I pay a mere £60/year professional indemnity insurance, CST could claim to be one of the safest types of medical intervention available.
6. Web Links
   IMPORTANT NOTE : links are provided to use at your own risk, with no guarantee that the information in them is correct, or that the links will remain available. I have tried to select sites that are apparently useful and probably factual (in their own way), but cannot keep checking their content. If you are interested by any web pages you find, I recommend that you save them rather than bookmarking them. If you open a saved webpage with a text editor, you will find the original web address in a comment line at the top of the file.
   • Craniosacral schools, governing bodies and other CST resources
   • Babies - information on alternative approaches to prenatal, birthing and postnatal care
   • Medical information - Mainstream medical, anatomy, physiology and pathology information particularly relevant to CST
   • Alternative and Complementary approaches to health
   • Recommended health practitioners, life coaches, workshop leaders and clinics :
     a selected few, mainly local to East Anglia (UK), but also some general UK and international
   • Self-help & Personal Development
   • Research topics - online databases, journals, biology, biophysics, physics, geoelectric fields, EMF hazards, etc
   • Miscellaneous - a grab-bag of other sites I find useful
   • The teachings of Bruno Groening