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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