cranio sacral therapy

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This has been recommended to me for my DS by a friend.

Does anyone know anything about it?

do you mean cranial osteopathy? if so my autistic son found this mildly helpful, but i do know people who say their children benfitted after a traumatic birth. it's very uninvasive - my 5 yr old just told me thast the man held his head whilst daddy read him stories.

It depends who you go to - we went to a cranial chiropractor who looks more holistically at the entire system including spine, all joints, and how everything moves together (which is good for moving their co-ordination along).

We found it really beneficial for our low weight early baby, really helped with feeding, sleeping and general mood really!

Depends whether you care about sound science or not. A 5 minute search on PubMed will tell you all you need to know about the science behind it. This article by the Royal College of Midwives is a bit more accessible, but tells the same story. (You have to download it as a pdf).

Personally, it's pretty much up there with crystals and auras, but if you've got money to spare...

i do care about sound science- i think astrology is rubbish and so on, but on the other hand my son's condition is heart breaking and incredibly difficult for our family to deal with - so i'll try anything that won't have a negative effect on him. i do have more faith in the nhs professionals that help us, but to be honest a lot of them are flailing around in the dark with autism and i just think -what if there was a tiny chance it would do something and i didn'y try it?
i know i'm ripe for exploitation with this attitude but it's not a black and white issue.

I don't think the medical profession is ever supportive of anything holistic.

You can find articles to support the effectiveness of treatment too, also after a 5 minute search on Pubmed, just think last poster has already made up her own mind!like this for instance

There is also a fuller article on Wikipedia which you might like to look at.

Personally....we felt let down by a profession that told us it was normal for a baby to NOT track and that I was just a stressy paranoid mum (she had an adverse reaction to her very first immunisation). Ermmm...no it isn't. The chiropractor worked with us and gave us some exercises to help things improve. Together we turned a non-responsive baby around into a thriving, back on track developmentally 1 year old.

Incidentally....it is routine in Canada (according to our Canadian chiropractor) for this treatment to be offered to newborns. If it was so crap, they wouldn't do it would they?

Meant last posters sorry not singling anyone out

i've been for it, and on the strength of my experience i took dd for a few checkups. basically i had terrible tension headaches and the chiropractor did a few things to my head, neck, spine and inside my mouth and it was quite clearly money for old rope... until i realised a few days later that my headache had gone completely.
dd wouldn't tolerate tummy time at all, but one trip to the CS chiro and all of a sudden she loved it. i'm convinced.