Cranio Sacral Therapy / Re: Anyone have children with"tight" hamstring muscles?

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My 3 1/2 year old son was also a complete toe walker

until about three weeks ago. We went to this speech

therapist consultant that is suppose to be (and I

think is) really good. She did an evaluation of my

son and said that he had some weakness in his trunk,

neck, and tongue, a delayed righting reflex, and

tissue tightness was keeping his tongue from moving as

well. We had already stopped the vitamin E at this

time, so I know it is not from this. She told us to

do several mouth exercises, some motor planning

sounds, physical therapy and Cranio Sacral Therapy.

The changes we have seen from Cranio Sacral Therapy

are so suprising because going into it I thought it

was a bunch of weird crap. First we saw changes in

the number of sit-ups (from 0 to 3), he was able to do

the wheel barrel, his left ear canal was so small that

a q-tip couldn't fit. While it is still small, a

q-tip fits. Yes, I know you shouldn't use q-tips but

he produces to much wax and I have to put vinigar in

his ears to change the PH and I just wipe around the

edges.

Then he started finally being able to say the motor

planning, more sit-ups, and his scribbling started to

change to things that made sense when explained and

sometimes there is no need for an expaination.

I won't continue telling each thing as it happened but

after 6 sessions he is no longer a toe walker and not

only can he get past neutral when flexing, he has

normal flexibility. He used to have fleeting eye

contact which we thought was because he was

uncomfortable with his articulation, but now he makes

and keeps eye contact. He can lick his lips all the

way around, do isolated movements with the tip of his

tongue, he is rarely 'W' sitting, he can wheel barrel

all around the house with his head up, he can do 11

sit-ups in a row and is beginning to put 's' and 'sh'

at the beginning of words. He has all sounds at the

end of words but this is the 1st new sound at the

start since November 2005.

What they say is that tissue has a memory and tramaus

cause tightness and restrictions in the cerebrospinal

fluid. Restrictions can cause any number of sensory,

motor, or neurological disabilities.

Around the time I was told to try this, someone had

written about Kauffman. I went that website and

found they have cranio Sacral Therapists. I called

and talked to one and she said the best school for it

is The Upledger Institute and to contact them. The

website is upledger.com. The will help find a

provider. Be sure they have taken advanced and SERI

and SERII for pediatric. Some teaching is also good

apparently.

Maybe many of you already know about this since a lot

of physical therapist are trained in it. If not, I

hope you will look into it. She works on my son while

he is playing and it is very light touch.

Good luck.

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