Craniosacral therapy effectiveness (systematic reviews)

Systematic-review evidence on craniosacral (cranial) therapy. An earlier systematic review (Jäkel & von Hauenschild 2012) found no valid scientific evidence that craniosacral therapy benefits patients. A later systematic review and meta-analysis found only very-low-certainty evidence of clinically unimportant effects on pain and no significant effect on disability or headache. Separate work has shown that practitioners cannot reliably agree on the ‘craniosacral rhythm’ the therapy claims to detect. The evidence base does not support craniosacral therapy for any musculoskeletal or non-musculoskeletal condition.