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Student and Therapist Newsletter Archive
- Postnatal Depression
+ Postnatal depression - March 07.
Dear John,
I really enjoy your newsletters. I have been getting them for quite
a while now but have never asked you anything before, so here goes.
A woman called me the other day to ask if cranio could help with postnatal
depression. I said yes and set up an appointment to see her next
week.
I have never treated postnatal depression before so I read up on it.
Nothing is jumping out as a possible cranio sacral link. I will
'treat what I find' when I see her but was just wondered if you had any
experience of it.
Thanking you in advance.
JL
London.
PS. I downloaded your book and it is excellent. Should be a bestseller.
>>>MY COMMENTS:
Thank you for the kind words.
I have found that postnatal depression is a condition that
responds really well to cranio sacral.
The root cause is often as a result of the birth process.
The main causes being one or a combination of the following - Labor, forceps,
ventouse, caesarean section and epidural.
The birth process can leave the mother's pelvic floor with
a pulled restriction. This in turn pulls the dural tube inferiorly
which in turn translates into the intracranial membranes and affects the
sphenoid which in turn leads to depression.
I have seen this pattern in 95% of the women I have treated
for postnatal depression.
It usually resolves pretty quickly. 6 or 7 weeks.
The initial treatments focus on getting the pelvic floor to come into
harmony and release.
Then once that happens it's a matter of following that work up the dural
tube into the head until the sphenoid settles.
I have treated women who have suffered with postnatal depression
for up to 10 years. After that length of time they are nearly always
on
medication and their second or third psychologist/counsellor.
It is fantastic and at the same time sad that it takes so
little to get rid of the symptoms and how much heartache that could be
avoided if they
had treatment earlier.
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