Would a greater understanding of the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse enhance osteopathic practice.
Item
- Title
- Would a greater understanding of the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse enhance osteopathic practice.
- Author(s)
- Birch, C
- Abstract
- In the light of the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse and the subsequent long term-effects, this review aims to improve the understanding of how the effects of CSA can affect individuals throughout a lifetime and whether this deeper understanding would enhance osteopathic practice. Firstly, the current literature on the long-term effects of CSA and HPA axis functioning are reviewed, finding that commonly survivors of CSA have a dysfunctional HPA axis. The enocannabinoid system is then explored for its regulatory role over the HPA axis, developmental role in brain maturational processes, and finally the connection to the extracellular matrix and cellular communication. This review regards the functioning the human body as systems operating within systems through tensegrity, embedded and interconnected relying on synchronization and flexibility/rigidity relationships to avoid allostatic overload. Finally we will explore the role of osteopathy for survivors of CSA as well as another mechanism behind osteopathic treatment.
- presented at
- European School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2014
- Date Submitted
- 20.1.2015 16:43:39
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 15484
- Inst-Identifier
- 1229
- Keywords
- Abuse, Counselling, Misconduct.
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Birch, C, “Would a greater understanding of the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse enhance osteopathic practice.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 17, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.com/s/orw/item/680