This is a personal anecdote, but somewhat applicable. I used to be a
massage therapist and took the CST training. At that time, I did not really
"get it" and never used it in my practice. Felt it was kind of hokey. Flash
forward 15 plus years to studying to sit for the IBCLC exam and reading
about CST, birth trauma and breastfeeding ... my 11 year old had been
having these facial tics for several years and we could never figure out
why. all of a sudden I put together the 32 hour long labor, forceps
delivery and breastfeeding issues we had. I took him in to see a pediatric
CST. He had three treatments ... not one facial tick to be had since (two
years later). I am now a believer in at least suggesting a mother try it.

Ginger Chun, BA, IBCLC, RLC
Breastfeeding Education and Support
www.freshmilkbaby.com


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Lynn Carter OFS <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> After somebody referred to CST have a spiritual component, I went and did
> some reading. I think we might be talking past each other.  My town is the
> home of an osteopathic medical school.  I *always* refer babies for an
> osteopathic manipulation (OMM), and babies caught by D.O.s will
> automatically be adjusted almost immediately after birth.  There is no
> spirituality or "woo" involved at all.  It has been my experience that
> where an infant is concerned, OMM, CST, and chiropractic in support of
> breastfeeding are all essentially the same thing: very gentle manipulation
> of the still-mobile skull bones and upper spine to free cranial nerves and
> help relax birth-related muscular kinks in the neck and shoulders. It's not
> perceived as "energy medicine" at all.
>
> I have had LLLLs in other parts of the country contact me because nobody in
> their area will accept that CST/OMM/chiro is anything more than snake oil
> and voodoo.  Apparently in those places, there is a great deal of "woo"
> attached to these types of treatments, and they are touted as cures for
> much more than the mechanical difficulties they directly address.
>
> I could definitely understand hesitation about manipulation in parts of the
> world where it is considered to be about energy fields and other
> intangibles.  That's not at all what I'm talking about.  When people insist
> on evidence and trials and things for CST/OMM/chiro as it is practiced
> here, it sounds to me just like insisting on something to back up the
> common practice of putting bones back where they belong when, say, an elbow
> is dislocated.  It's just common sense to fix what is broken.
>
> Does that clear things up a bit?
>
> Lynn Carter OFS LLLL IBCLC
> Missouri, USA
>
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