FAQs
What does Craniosacral Therapy feel like?
Most people who experience craniosacral therapy for the first time report a soothing, relaxing and pain / symptom alleviating feeling during the session. People report various pleasant sensations throughout the body such as a warm feeling, pleasant tingling, muscle twitch, a letting go feeling, muscle relaxation, pressure release, things of that nature.
What is Craniosacral Therapy?
Craniosacral Therapy is a hands-on touch therapy that facilitates your body to respond in a healing way to the specific hand placements of the therapist during the session. The hand placements are meant to facilitate a release of fluid stagnation within tissues and stimulate optimal flow of cerebrospinal fluid through the proper channels.
What does Craniosacral Therapy Treat?
CST is good for a variety of health issues. A comprehensive list can be found here. Clicking this Link will provide information about the work. If you don’t see something that pertains to you, please contact us.
Are there any side effects from Craniosacral Therapy?
Usually there are only pleasant sensations during the session and most often complete relaxation. After the session there is Processing by the Central Nervous System, which can take a few days and up-to a week to complete. This is your body’s response to releasing trapped emotions, negative experiences and physical trauma your body has been holding on to. There are no negative side effects.
How often should someone have Craniosacral Therapy?
Generally, most people come once per week. Some adults and small Children can be seen two-to-three times per week. The most important consideration is how quickly someone processes the session and achieves a functional correction.
How costly is Craniosacral Therapy?
Every practitioner’s charge is different. Cost depends on the therapist’s experience and skill-set. Some practitioners are better than others in their ability to provide results. Therefore, you cannot gage the overall cost based solely on the per-visit cost. Most people need multiple visits, but that range would vary from practitioner to practitioner. It also depends on the professional license the practitioner holds. For example a chiropractor, or massage therapist, etc. The cost of care at our office can be found here.
How long is a typical Craniosacral Therapy session?
A typical session is forty or sixty minutes for adults and thirty to forty-five minutes for children.
Can you do Craniosacral Therapy on yourself?
Yes, with the proper guidance you can learn self-care craniosacral therapy. There are self-help books available on this subject and some practitioners teach it in their office to patients. Dr. Kaminsky can show you some techniques that can add synergy to the in-office sessions.
Who can administer Craniosacral Therapy?
Any person that is a healthcare professional such as Chiropractor, Physical Therapist, Nurse, Dentist, Medical Doctor, Osteopath, Acupuncturist, Massage Therapist and other licensed healthcare practitioners that attend continuing education craniosacral therapy seminars, as offered by the Upledger Institute. Experience in Craniosacral therapy is the biggest asset of any practitioner.
Alex was born in March 1972. At the age of 7 he started to experience frequent headaches with all the conventional symptoms of a Migraine headache. His particular headache resulted in him experiencing auras, nausea and sensitivity to light with no particular trigger to the onset of the migraine.
After years of treatments, therapies and medications, his headaches were no better and Alex continued to experience them all throughout childhood and into young adulthood. Some years the headaches would come monthly, some years every two to three months and some years weekly. His headaches were incurable, there was nothing that could alleviate the symptoms and head pain. Until he experienced cranial manual therapy, which resulted in the complete eradication of his life-long Migraine Headaches.
At the age of 16 Alex noticed a mild deformity in the right side of his ribs, a slightly lower right shoulder and the experience of constant lower back pain. Although mild, a diagnosis of Idiopathic Adolescent Scoliosis had been labeled.
At the age of 18 he was involved in a serious car accident that exacerbated his lower back pain. Throughout the years Alex had tried a multitude of conventional treatments but continued to suffer on and off with lower back pain, even throughout Chiropractic school and beyond.
In 2015 and fifteen+ years out of Chiropractic school, Dr. Kaminsky participated in his first and life changing Craniosacral Therapy seminar and he was fascinated, intrigued and hooked. It all made sense, he was immediately astute to its methods and since that first seminar, and as a result of trading sessions of Craniosacral Therapy with his colleagues, his back pain subsided and till this day has never returned.
Dr. Kaminsky decided to enhance his skill-set to better serve his patients. He began reaching out to other craniosacral therapists, cranial osteopaths, and many types of leading practitioners from various fields for advise and consultations He also enrolled in Upledger continuing education seminars with a focus on mostly hands-on manual and alternative therapies.
And, as he gained knowledge with his own health issues, he has learned to help more and more patients achieve great health results.
Dr. Alex Kaminsky is headache free and low back pain free, and has committed himself to a life of learning, teaching and treating patients. His emphasis is on the patient’s stored patterns of the body and each individual healthcare needs.