According to the National Sleep Foundation 1 in 5 Americans is sleep deprived and the CDC recognizes sleep disturbance as a public health epidemic.  If you have insomnia you know how difficult it is to just function throughout the day.   Sleep affects every tissue in our bodies. When your body does not have a good night sleep it will effect your stress level,  hormones, appetite, immune system, and more. Fortunately insomnia treatment is available in New York City with Dr. Kaminsky’s Craniosacral Therapy..

Sleep is typically a time when the body heals itself as sleep is restorative where blood pressure declines, breathing slows, blood flows to the muscles and tissues are repaired.  A  study on insomnia treatment  published in the Journal of Integrative Medicine found Craniosacral therapy could help regulate the autonomic nervous system, part of the body responsible for our ability to rest and respond to stress. In that study Wanda Girsberger, a craniosacral therapist in Zurich, Switzerland states “By regulating the patients autonomic nervous system through craniosacral therapy, the patient’s body could enhance its functions in digestion, relaxation and aid in the supply of cerebral-spinal fluid providing more oxygen to the brain supporting clear thinking”. The regulation of our autonomic nervous system is mandatory for our health…the interplay of activity and relaxation allows us to grow, heal, regulate our moods, and more.

Craniosacral therapy also effects the Pineal gland (located in the vertebrate brain between the left and right hemispheres). The pineal gland’s primary function is to secrete Melatonin the hormone responsible for regulating our biological clock and sleep wake cycles.  Lastly Craniosacral Therapy helps to promote sleep by deactivating what is known as our bodies “Reticular Alarm System”. The Reticular Alarm System is a set of connected nuclei found in the brain that is responsible for regulating our sleep-wake transitions.    Dr. Kaminsky releases these pressures and improves the efficiency of fluid outflow at the occipital-cranial base (base of the skull).  When successfully applied, insomnia significantly subsides. The end result of Craniosacral Therapy is improvement in REM sleep and good restful overall sleep.

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.