Craniosacral Therapy and Stress Reduction

Hi everybody! 

I hope you are all well and had an enjoyable, active, and relaxing summer. There are a few office announcements (see below), but first I am very excited to share some research about how you can help reduce your body's response to stress. And even better, the research is about something near and dear to my heart, craniosacral therapy!!!

I love getting a craniosacral therapy session; it takes me to a place of deep rest, like those drifty moments when being awake loses its battle over the sleep that my body loves so much. It helps balance the nervous system tissues in such a delicious way. And now we have science to show it can actually help reduce your stress hormone response when under difficult situations. 

The study found a statistically significant reduction in cortisol levels in first responders who were given craniosacral therapy (compared to a control group who did not get therapy) when responding to rescue operations. The far reaching, global body response to stress is vast, and I'm sure in time we will learn more ways that uncontrolled and unhealthy stress response is negatively affecting us in the long run. It is impossible to live without stressors, and while we try to reduce and mitigate them, eliminating them is not possible. The best we can do is support our health by teaching our body how to respond in healthier ways. And this article shows that craniosacral therapy might be at least one way of doing this. See the study by Wójcik et all listed below for more details and deeper (and hopefully relaxing) reading.

As for Enlighten Therapy business details, there are 3 new things on the horizon.

1.) I am excited to announce I will be opening my Monday schedule for patients starting in October. I know some of you are already on my Monday calendar and I'm excited to see you on the table soon! 

2.) I will be raising my rates starting October 15th due to cost of living increases. Sessions will be $110 for follow up visits and $120 for initial sessions. I am sorry if this creates hardship for anyone, please know it has taken me a long time to raise my prices and it didn't come without serious contemplation. 

3.) Some of you may have noticed that my last name has changed from Stevens to Eager. I'm the same physical therapist, just with a fancy new name (technically an old name as it was my maiden name). And if I'm being totally honest, I think it matches my personality very well.

I hope you all know how much I appreciate every single one of you and am grateful to have you in my circle!

Article link: https://www.jomh.org/articles/10.31083/j.jomh1806140