The Craniosacral
Dental Fascial System
And Brain Therapy
© 2005 Dr. Barry R. Gillespie
When clients presented to me years
ago with difficult conditions, I integrated a number of
touch therapies for their benefit. As time passed, treatment
was continually successful for large numbers of people.
In order to explain how the therapies worked,
I had to create a new scientific model. This article
describes how the craniosacral dental fascial system works
through our touch therapies.
This system can readily explain how people with
a large number of conditions can be successfully treated with
one integrated approach.
Dr. Sutherland's 40 Years
Of Clinical Research
In 1939 Dr. William Sutherland presented forty years of
clinical research in his book, The Cranial Bowl.
He discovered the craniosacral concept where the brain and
spinal cord had a very slight cyclical motion. The meninges
and bones surrounding the nervous system moved in synchronicity
around it. He found that this motion was very important physiologically,
and that it needed to be present in a healthy individual.
In reality he found that clinically many people had restricted
brain motion due to physical trauma. This gave rise to the
onion concept that I presented in Healing Your Child.
An adult may be presenting to you with many layers of trauma
in his onion from in utero to the present day. A long difficult
delivery with forceps or suction tube may create a cranial
restriction that can last a lifetime. A series of physical
traumas in childhood can create adult conditions.
In a perfect world everyone should have their craniosacral
mechanism check at birth and periodically thereafter to monitor
the quality of brain motion.
The Craniosacral Mechanism
And The Fascial Web
The craniosacral mechanism does not exist separately
from the fascial web that runs from head to toe and finger
to finger. John Barnes has told us that the fascia
remembers all of its traumas; this web interconnects everything
in the body in space and time.
Fascia surrounds every muscle cell and is interwoven through
the organs and nervous system; it interconnects everything
in the body. The pain in your head may be due to fascial strain
in your shoulder. In the same manner the pain in your neck
may be from fascial strain from your lower back.
In a traumatic event the fascia can present a strain pattern
that can pull up to 2,000 pounds per square inch. Thus, a
whiplash car accident can cause a total body strain pattern
creating conditions from head to toe.
Fascia is such a key aspect of our touch therapies and may
be missed in the evaluation process. There is no testing for
fascia in the medical model. The craniosacral mechanism sits
in a sea of fascia and becomes one as the craniosacral fascial
system.
Adding The Oral Aspect
The oral aspect of this system is a little-known
but critical component.
For the most part dentists unknowingly work in this craniosacral
dental fascial system. Their oral work can greatly help the
system with properly made full dentures or can greatly hinder
it with bands and arch-wire orthodontic care.
Clients can cause themselves great systemic distress in
their TMJ areas. If they grind and/or clench their teeth while
sleeping, they can severely restrict the motion of the brain.
It is really important that we as massage therapists have
an appreciation for the different types of dental actions
such as clenching and procedures from root canals to dental
extractions that can be afflicted on the craniosacral fascial
system.
Not only will clients present to you with recent dental trauma,
but can have an onion of oral trauma, tooth by tooth, that
can restrict this system. Because the oral concept is an integral
part of the craniosacral fascial system, it must be included
as the craniosacral dental fascial system.
How Diseases Fit
Into This Medical Model
Now that this model system has been created, let’s
see how certain diseases fit into it.
Childhood asthma is primarily a fascial
tightness of the respiratory system; when the child’s
body releases, the disease can abate.
Chronic earaches are usually a misalignment
and restriction of the temporal bones; with proper therapy
these can also fade away.
Childhood headaches, hyperactivity, and learning
disorders can present with severe cranial restriction.
Children can show dramatic improvement with therapy.
Other conditions like sinus/allergy, neck ache, scoliosis,
eye, and colic for children can all fit into this model in
a similar manner. So if a child presents with asthma, sinus/allergy,
headaches, and difficulty in school, all of these conditions
can be considered as one as a disturbance of the craniosacral
dental fascial system.
The same explanation can be made for many adult conditions
like migraine headaches, lower back, and other chronic ailments.
The medical educational model teaches anatomy and physiology
through about a dozen body systems, like the respiratory,
digestive, and cardiovascular. These are all excellent systems
but with more recent medical findings need to be expanded.
In order to fit our therapies into the medical model, the
craniosacral dental fascial system may suit our needs. As
you do your touch therapies, it may be beneficial for you
to think of your client’s conditions as a disturbance
of the craniosacral dental fascial system.
When a child client presents with asthma or an adult with
chronic migraines, it is imperative that you plug into this
system for correction. As you work with this system over time,
you will see how many conditions will fit into it.
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