Infant Craniosacral Therapy For Tongue Tie

What is Craniosacral Therapy?

Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on therapy that focuses on releasing tension within the craniosacral system. This system includes the cerebrospinal fluid, brain, spinal cord, and surrounding connective tissues. By applying light pressure to areas like the skull, neck, and sacrum, CST helps relieve tightness and improve fluid movement throughout your baby’s body.

How Craniosacral Therapy Can Help With a Tongue Tie

A tongue tie can cause tension throughout the body, from the tongue to the neck and even the spine. Craniosacral Therapy addresses these deeper tensions, helping to:

• Improve tongue mobility for better latching and breastfeeding
• Alleviate tightness in the neck, shoulders, and spine
• Promote better sleep and reduced fussiness
• Enhance the flow of cerebrospinal fluid to support the nervous system
• Relieve midline tension that may affect milestones like crawling and sitting

Tongue Tie and Airway Treatment Plan

Our Process

Did you just find out you or your little one might have a tongue tie? This can be overwhelming at the beginning, but we are here to help you through the process.

Step 1) Identify the Tie. 

This might have been brought up by another provider such as a dentist, lactation consultant, ENT or self-diagnosed. We can also check here to see if you have a tie.

Step 2) Evaluate Function. 

Is the tie effecting feeding, speech, midline tension, delays in milestones, enlargement of tonsils and or adenoids, orthodontic issues, neck pain, TMJ dysfunction, sleep apnea or sleep disordered breathing.

Step 3) Determine a Treatment Plan. 

This may include working with other providers such as frenectomy providers, myofunctional therapists, lactation consultants and of course us your chiropractor.

Step 4) Bodywork and Chiropractic Care. 

Adjustments using sustained contact, instrument assisted or manual adjustments to the spine and TMJ. Craniosacral Therapy (CST), a type of bodywork technique that uses gentle pressure on the head, neck, and back to release tension and discomfort caused by compensations. The focus of CST is to promote the movement of fluids in and around the central nervous system, with the goal of enhancing the body’s natural healing abilities. Intraoral work including tongue stretching and massage and palate stretches.

Step 5) At Home Care Recommendations.

Exercises to perform at home to help stretch and strengthen and help maintain adjustments.

Step 6) Open Communication.

We will work with your plan, keeping it fluid to ensure we do what’s best for your body and communicate with any other providers you are also working with.

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