This is the first type of treatment I had, which I started a year after getting the concussion. Someone had suggested it to me earlier but I had forgotten, and I wish I had started having it right away. TheUK Craniosacral Therapy Association describe it as:
a gentle but potent way of working with the body using light touch [which] supports your body’s innate ability to balance, restore and heal itself, as well as helping to reduce stress and build your underlying energy. The practitioner senses tensions in the body and helps to release them in a supported and comfortable way. During or after a session you may feel calm and energised, with increased clarity of mind and a feeling of well-being.
I find the treatment gentle yet it always makes me feel more clear-headed and removes the sense of pressure I sometimes feel in my head (though sometimes I’m a bit worse for a day or two afterwards, before I see an improvement).
Dr Gail Denton, an American doctor who suffered a whiplash brain injury, recommends it as a primary therapy for brain injury:
This therapy is based on the principle that your body, especially your central nervous system, and specifically your head, spinal cord and the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) that moves within this system, functions most effectively when the pressure and flow of CSF are in balance. When an MTBI [mild traumatic brain injury] is present, this balance of flow and pressure is generally disrupted. Symptoms of this imbalance can include but certainly are not limited to headaches, insomnia, nausea, irritability, foggy thinking, poor equilibrium, face pain, inflexible mood and environmental or social oversensitivity. Treating these and similar symptoms as a primary therapy approach sets the stage for all therapies that follow.
You can find a therapist in the UK via the Craniosacral Therapy Association.